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 and 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.^[1]

HMS Ganges was also known as Shotley Training Establishment.