HMS Collingwood (establishment)
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HMS Collingwood is a stone frigate (shore establishment) of the Royal Navy. It is the lead establishment of the Maritime Warfare School (MWS) and the largest naval training organisation in Western Europe[1]. The MWS is a federated training establishment incorporating HMS Excellent, the Defence Diving School, the RN Physical Training School, the School of Hydrography and Meteorology in Plymouth and the Royal Marines School of Music in Portsmouth Naval Base.
HMS Collingwood gained its name from Lord Collingwood, a distinguished admiral at the turn of the 19th century. The current shore establishment was commissioned as the fourth HMS Collingwood on 10 January 1940, initially to instruct "hostilities only' ratings of the Seaman branch. Wireless Telegraphy ratings started their training in June 1940, and a Radio Direction Finding School was added in 1942. In 1946 Collingwood took over the training of both officers and ratings in the maintenance of all electrical and radio equipment in the Fleet, except that of the Fleet Air Arm.
The Maritime Warfare School was formed in January 2002 as part of the British Government's Defence Training Review with, in particular, the transfer in of training previously undertaken at HMS Dryad.
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