“They want you, they want you as a new recruit!”

Since being established in 2017 the Naval Shipbuilding College has not actually taught anybody anything about shipbuilding. Certainly, it has done workforce planning and helped create a guide to welding, but as to actually training anyone on to build a ship, “the name perhaps is a slight misnomer,” an official told a Senate committee last year, (CMM March 20 2020).

But now there is a 30 minute “on-line taster course” on what the navy uses ships to do and “common shipbuilding terminology, (and) production processes.”  It’s not quite in the navy – but at least its about ships.