HMS Raleigh, in Torpoint, Cornwall, has increased its capacity to train female sailors with accommodation for 120 women.
Currently one in six sailors passing out of the Royal Navy’s principal basic training base is a woman–up on last year.
Of 513 civilians finishing the ten-week training course – learning drill, tradition, leadership and weapon handling – in November, 88 were female.
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