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The ASC or Admiralty Sailing Craft (sometimes incorrectly called Admiralty Sea Cadet) is a purpose-built, rugged GRP or wood sailing dinghy, historically with gunter rig, with a Bermuda rig optional, designed for use by UK naval and sea cadet establishments as a pulling or sailing dinghy.
TS Jack Petchey in Ostend, Belgium. The TS Jack Petchey, is a British-flagged training ship, named after Jack Petchey OBE. The Jack Petchey is part of the Offshore Fleet of the Sea Cadet Corps, and is used to take 12 Sea Cadets to sea, although she comes alongside most nights she does have the capability to carry out extended passages.
The Sea Cadets have three classes of offshore vessels, all of which are capable of coastal/offshore passage making. Sea Cadet voyages normally last for 6 days, with cadets gaining RYA qualifications for their voyage. Individual Sea Cadet units also have various boats including MOD motor boats such as Vikings, Champs, Dories.
To Sea Cadet Corps at Newark in December 1945; sold 30 November 1955. MTB 769: William King, Burnham-on-Crouch: June 1944: To Sea Cadet Corps at Fareham in 1946; sold 24 April 1956. MTB 770: Leo A. Robinson, Oulton Broad, near Lowestoft: 11 December 1944: To Sea Cadet Corps at Cleethorpes in April 1946; sold 26 November 1957. MTB 771
On 26 July 2013 a £4.8 million contract was awarded to Spanish shipyard Astilleros Gondan S.A and designers Acubens, to build the Sea Cadets' new 21st Century flagship which will take thousands of cadets on offshore voyages. The replacement - also called TS Royalist [9] was launched on 19 December 2014, and entered service in the spring of 2015.
The Girls' Nautical Training Corps was formed as part of the National Association of Training Corps for Girls in 1942, with units mainly in Southern England. [1] [2] Its objective was congruent with that of the Sea Cadet Corps, teaching girls aged 14 to 20 the same seamanship skills as the SCC taught the boys, in preparation for service with the Women's Royal Naval Service.
Royalist is 34 metres (111 ft 7 in) long, [2] with a beam of 7.36 metres (24 ft 2 in). [3] Her draught is 3.25 metres (10 ft 8 in). [4] The ship's hull is of high tensile steel, with her superstructure of glass reinforced plastic.
The Sea-class workboat has been procured for Britain's Royal Navy to undertake a number of roles, including: logistics and transport tasks, inshore and harbour survey work, diver training and support, officer training and providing passenger transfer modules for the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales. An autonomous minehunting variant of the ...