Warsash Maritime School
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Type | Public |
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Established | 1902, 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 , , , |
Colours | Red and White |
Website | Maritime 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]