Britannia Royal Naval College has been training Royal 
Naval officers on its current site since 14th September, 1905. In fact, naval officers'​ training in Dartmouth goes back to 1863, when the old wooden ship HMS Britannia was first moored in the River Dart. The job has always been the same and is now encapsulated, as you might expect, in a mission statement:

“To deliver courageous leaders with the spirit to fight and win”.

Under the Royal patronage of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, the Britannia Association was created and registered in 2001.


The Britannia Association charity is the Alumni Association for Britannia Royal Naval College which:

As a charity aims, through grants, events and communications, to:

- Support BRNC and its trainees
- Support BRNC trainees’ participation in adventurous training, or other development activities
- Raise awareness and understanding of BRNC and the Naval Service. (This currently includes running public and private tours of BRNC.)
- Relieve hardship amongst Association members
- Potentially provide a gift membership for long-standing members of College staff

And as an Alumni Association, aims to provide:

- A network for communication between members and events to enable such communication
- A means for maintaining members’ engagement with and knowledge of BRNC and the wider Royal Navy
- Support to members visiting or arranging reunions or other events at BRNC
- Other opportunities to members (Recently this has included associate membership of a London club.)

The Association is well founded and continues to grow from strength to strength meeting its aims and charitable objectives.

The Britannia Association is a registered charity.

Charity No. 1158111
CIO No. 9119745

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