Britannia Royal Naval College at Sandquay, currently the former "Sandown" class minehunter , continues to bear the name "Hindostan". Cadets originally joined the Royal Naval College, Osborne, at the age of 13 for two years' study and work before joining Dartmouth. They studied there for four years there before starting sea training at age 17. RNC Osborne closed in 1923. The entry age for the Naval College was changed to 16 in 1948, and to 17 and 6 months in 1955. Until 1941, Dartmouth was in effect a specialised boarding school, with parents paying fees for tuition and board. During the Second World War,
Naval Academy Etajima The current academy was re-established in 1956. Before World War II, the Britannia Royal Naval College and United States Naval Academy were called the “worldwide 3 large service academies”. Many of the facilities of the Naval Academy are used by the 1st Technical School and the Officer Candidate School. The Naval History Museum is a building of reinforced concrete that was constructed in 1936. It holds artifacts of Heihachiro Togo, Horatio Nelson, John Paul Jones and Isoroku Yamamoto, as well as a book of naval officers which holds more than 10,000 names. Inside the site is a midget submarine that