Italian Naval Academy
The Naval Academy in Livorno ( Italian: Accademia Navale di Livorno) is a military establishment founded in 1881, are trained at the aspiring officers of the Italian Navy and the Italian Coast Guard.
Training directions
Marine officer candidates undergo basically a three -year university education at the Naval Academy, the more higher education depends on the intended use. The teaching was aligned with the Bologna process. The training in the first three years (Bachelor ) is aligned to the military seafaring. Officer candidates, the technical field ( Genio Navale, Armi Navali ) study engineering with a focus on shipbuilding and telecommunications. Members of the Corpo di Commissariato ( management area of the Navy) and Guardia Costiera the ( Coast Guard ) study law and government entities with a focus on maritime law, members of the medical service medicine.
The training of future officers of the maritime management service was reduced in 2012 from five to three years and more practical aspects. After completing their three-year training at the Naval Academy and other specialists and system training they come to their service and complete until several years later a master's degree. For the aspiring officers of the Coast Guard and the Administration Service, it has remained in continuous five years of education at the Naval Academy. The officer cadets of the technical service complete including practical units four years of training at the Naval Academy and then switch to civilian universities in Pisa, Genoa, Naples and Trieste, where they can finish their studies with a master after a total of five years. In the budding medical officers, training is already the third year in collaboration with the University of Pisa.
Finds the Maritime Training, apart from shorter sections, especially from July to September instead. The candidates of the first year sailing on the famous training ship Amerigo Vespucci, the second year will be formed on the San Giusto. Later internships take place on warships. For other training sections smaller sailing ships or boats are available.
If necessary, the Italian Navy graduates of certain disciplines as officers one on time. This will get an approximately three-month military -specific training at the Naval Academy. It follows an approximately four months of practical training in the work area and then the beginning of the normal service. Later these officers can be professional soldiers.
The Naval Academy also offers a number of training courses. The organizationally independent naval staff training was outsourced several years ago.
History
The Accademia Navale owes its existence to the work of Admiral Benedetto Brin. As Secretary of the Navy, he ordered the consolidation of the Navy schools of Naples and Genoa, which had trained the officers of the navies of the kingdoms of Naples and Sardinia - Piedmont before the unification of Italy (the school in Naples was founded in 1735 in Genoa in 1816 by Admiral Giorgio Des Geneys as successor founded in Villafranca in Nice 1762 naval Academy ).
The Naval Academy originated in the late 1870s, immediately south of the port of Livorno on a plot on which was written in the 17th century, the Lazzaretto di San Jacopo. The new Academy was inaugurated on 6 November 1881. She soon became the best and most prestigious military academy in Italy. However, over many decades, she was also known for its often exaggerated discipline and toughness. In 1913, we expanded it to the site of the former Lazzaretto di San Leopoldo. From 1923 to 1926 in the facilities of the Naval Academy and the Officers School of the new Italian Air Force was placed. Until the late 1990s, when this was also the Leadership Academy of the Navy, were trained at the naval staff officers. It now has its headquarters in the Arsenal of Venice.
From war-related reasons you moved the Naval Academy in July 1943 to Venice and then to Brindisi, where she remained until 1946. After Allied air raids, some buildings of the Academy in Livorno had to be almost completely rebuilt. On this occasion, some new buildings and extensions were added. Overall, the Academy is today a 215,000 square meters along a stretch of coastline south of the port of Livorno.
In addition to military Naval Academy of Livorno there is an academy in Genoa in the merchant navy.
Training ships
Currently, the Italian Navy operates the following school ships:
- Amerigo Vespucci ( 5312 A ) ( sail training ship, 4,146 t. Max. )
- Palinuro (A 5311 ) ( sail training ship, 1,341 t max, .. NCOs )
- Corsaro II (A 5316 ) (monohull, 47 t. Max. )
- Stella Polare (A 5313 ) ( supra, Corsaro class)
- Orsa Maggiore (A 5323 ) (monohull, 79.3 t. Max. )
- Capricia (A 5322 ) (monohull, 49.9 t. Max. )
- Carolyn (A 5302 ) (monohull, 60 tons max. )
- Chaplin (sailing yacht, 18 tons max. )
- Aragosta -Ham - class ( ex. minesweepers, extensively modernized ) Astice (A 5379 )
- Mitilo (A 5380 )
- Murena (A 5305 )
- Porpora (A 5382 )
The last used as a school ship former cruiser Vittorio Veneto ( C550 ) was replaced by the landing ship San Giusto.