Warsash Maritime School

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Warsash Maritime School
TypePublic
Established1902, previously known as Warsash Maritime Centre, & the Southampton School of Navigation
Academic staff
Lars Lippuner (Director) and Jonathan Ridley (Head of Engineering)[1][2]
Address
Southampton and Warsash
,
Southampton
,
Hampshire
,
UK
ColoursRed and White
WebsiteMaritime Solent

Warsash Maritime School, formerly Warsash Maritime Centre and Warsash Maritime Academy, is a maritime training college that is part of Solent University.[3] The college provides education, training, consultancy and research to the international shipping and off-shore oil industries. It is one of the United Kingdom's colleges responsible for the training of the British Merchant Navy. The courses on offer cover a wide range of maritime education and training from deck and engineer officer cadetships, including degree pathways, to senior officer certificates of competency, together with the associated safety training.[3]

The current college is split across several sites, with the main academy campus in Southampton City Centre, the practical campus (focusing on survival, medical are firefighting training) in Warsash and the Ship Handling Centre at Timsbury Lake.[3] From 1946 to 2017, the School was primarily located at its historic Warsash site, just east of Southampton aside the River Hamble and Warsash village.[4] In 2017, the school transitioned to new facilities, built at a cost of over £43 million in the city centre.[4][5] Aside from a few remaining practical course facilities, the majority of the Warsash campus is now being converted to private housing.[6]

  1. ^ "Cross-Channel 'flying ferries' concept revealed for Portsmouth route". BBC News. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Nautilus2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b c "Warsash Maritime Academy". Warsash Maritime School. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
  4. ^ a b "The Future of Warsash". Warsash Maritime School. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
  5. ^ "Maritime academy to scale back its Warsash facilities". Portsmouth NEws. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
  6. ^ "Fareham planning for 7,000 new homes by 2037 - with residents 'shocked' at the number in Warsash". Portsmouth News. Retrieved 17 October 2021.