HMS Ganges (shore establishment)
Bill Jordan, the New Zealand High Commissioner, with a group of New Zealand sailors in front of the masthead and figurehead of HMS Ganges. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Ganges |
| Commissioned | May 1865 |
| Fate | Closed in October 1976 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Stone frigate |
HMS Ganges was a training ship and later stone frigate of the Royal Navy. She was established as a boys' training establishment in 1865, and was based aboard a number of hulks before moving ashore. She was based alternately in Falmouth, Harwich (from 1899) and Shotley (from 1905). She remained in service at RNTE Shotley until October 1976.
HMS Ganges was also known as Shotley Training Establishment.