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Apprentice Training SquadronNational Cruise First Barbary War (1803-1805) 1920s Save "Old Ironsides" Campaign Women in the Navy Apprentice Training Squadron USS Constitution in Popular Culture U.S. Naval Academy School Ship Captain John and Mrs. Caroline Gwinn James Sever Collection Ira Dye Collection on Early Seafarers Gunner George Sirian Escaping a British Squadron Commander Charles Stewart Midshipman Pardon Mawney Whipple Gunner John Lord Commander William Bainbridge Purser Thomas J. Chew Battle with HMS Cyane and HMS Levant Marines Commander Isaac Hull Ship Portraits Construction and Launch War of 1812 Souvenirs Battle with HMS Guerriere Medicine Life at Sea Navigation Arms and Armament Battle with HMS JavaApprentice Training SquadronNational Cruise First Barbary War (1803-1805) 1920s Save "Old Ironsides" Campaign Women in the Navy Apprentice Training Squadron USS Constitution in Popular Culture U.S. Naval Academy School Ship Captain John and Mrs. Caroline Gwinn James Sever Collection Ira Dye Collection on Early Seafarers Gunner George Sirian Escaping a British Squadron Commander Charles Stewart Midshipman Pardon Mawney Whipple Gunner John Lord Commander William Bainbridge Purser Thomas J. Chew Battle with HMS Cyane and HMS Levant Marines Commander Isaac Hull Ship Portraits Construction and Launch War of 1812 Souvenirs Battle with HMS Guerriere Medicine Life at Sea Navigation Arms and Armament Battle with HMS Java
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Apprentice Training Squadron
In 1879, USS Constitution became one of four underway training ships in a new U.S. Navy program: the Apprentice Training Squadron. Lasting until 1904, the apprentice program was designed to create a pathway into the Navy for qualified teens. They joined at one the Navy receiving ships, then were sent to a naval station for academic and naval education. After six months in the classroom, they joined one of the underway training ships for six months. If they successfully completed the program, the students transferred to regular duty warships where they continued their training at the rank of seaman apprentice second class.
As part of the Squadron from 1879 to 1881, Constitution sailed to various locales including stops in the Caribbean, Central America, Nova Scotia, and along the East Coast of the United States.
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