Welcome to TS2000 web-site

Training-Ship History/Social History, TS200 was set up by a group of Social/Naval Historians and Museum archivists to try bringing together 150 years of Naval/Nautical Training Ship history, and preserving it in the new world of the web, for future generations. Many Training Ships have already set up their own Training Ship Sites, preserving their Training Ship History, and linking people together from all parts of the world.

TS2000 accepts that no Museum in the near future will be able to link together the Training Ships. Some Training Ships were run by the Navy, others by private charities and other organizations, as schools, others as reformatories, but they all supplied the Royal and Merchant Navy with a steady stream of highly disciplined recruits.If what we read is true, there seemed to have been very little difference between the conditions of Reformatory Training Ships, and Royal Navy Training Ships.

Or indeed between conditions on officer Training Ships like Conway, or the nearby Idefatigable. The main complaint seems to have been the food. Some Training Ships no longer have anyone left alive to remember them. TS2000 would like to remember those Ships, and introduce people/schools to a history that goes beyond ex-Training Ship personnel. Training Ships are a very important part of British Naval/Nautical history, that has largely been sidelined because the public know very little about them or their history. Gone are the days when there was a Training Ship at the mouth of every river, and land Ships were being built to replace them.

We hope that it will not just be ex-nozzers who will remember the Training Ships, otherwise even Training Ships like H.M.S. Ganges will one day be only remembered by local people, as is the case with the Training Ship Mars, as a frightening establishment that has long since gone.

Andrew GibbsTS2000(our-history)

 

KIT INSPECTION TS ARETHUSA