Royal Navy submarines. By July 2017 the first of 8 new frigates was laid down, the Type 26 frigate. There are also plans to build up to 10 Global Combat Ships to replace some of the older frigates in the fleet. at Torpoint, Cornwall, is the basic training facility for newly enlisted personnel. Britannia Royal Naval College is the initial officer training establishment for the navy, located at Dartmouth, Devon. Personnel are divided into a general duties branch, which includes those seamen officers eligible for command, and other branches including the Royal Naval Engineers, medical, and Logistics Officers, the renamed Supply Officer
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