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[[File:Girls' Nautical Training Corps.JPG|thumb|150px|right|GNTC Officers Cap Badge]]
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The '''Girls' Nautical Training Corps''' was formed as part of the [[National Association of Training Corps for Girls]] in 1942, with units mainly in [[Southern England]].<ref name="cardiff">{{cite web |url=http://www.cardiffseacadets.co.uk/history_cadet.htm |title=A Brief History the Sea Cadets |access-date=20 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303203843/http://www.cardiffseacadets.co.uk/history_cadet.htm |archive-date=3 March 2016}}</ref><ref name="dover"/> Its objective was congruent with that of the [[Sea Cadet Corps]], teaching girls aged 14 to 20 the same [[seamanship]] skills as the SCC taught the boys, in preparation for service with the [[Women's Royal Naval Service]].

[[File:Girls' Nautical Training Corps (GNTC) badge.png|thumb|150px|left|Badge of the Girls' Nautical Training Corps]]
The Girls' Naval Training Corps numbered 50 Units in 1952, and in the late 1950s changed their name to the ''Girls' Nautical Training Corps''. [[Lady Pamela Hicks|Lady Pamela Mountbatten]] was Corps Commandant of the GNTC from around 1952 to around 1959.<ref name="pamela1">{{cite web |url=https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/girls-nautical-training-corps-commandant-lady-mountbatten-news-photo/79665627#/girls-nautical-training-corps-commandant-lady-mountbatten-at-surbiton-picture-id79665627 |title=Girl's Nautical Training Corps Commandant Lady Mountbatten (bottom row, 4th right) at Surbiton, Surrey training course, 18th August 1959|access-date=20 July 2018 }}</ref><ref name="pamela2">{{cite web |url=https://www.agefotostock.com/age/en/Stock-Images/Rights-Managed/ZUK-19600108-p01-k09-1298 |title=1952 - Lady Pamela Mountbatten visits members of Girls Nautical training corps.: The annual training course of the Girls' Nautical Training Corps - a voluntary|access-date=20 July 2018 }}</ref><ref name="pamela3">{{cite web |url=https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-aug-08-1959-lady-pamela-mountbatten-visits-girls-nautical-training-69359070.html|title=Aug. 08, 1959 - Lady Pamela Mountbatten visits girl's nautical training corps|access-date=20 July 2018 }}</ref><ref name="pamela4">{{cite web |url=https://fineartamerica.com/featured/lady-pamela-mountbatten-visits-members-of-girls-nautical-training-corps-retro-images-archive.html|title=Lady Pamela Mountbatten visits members of the Girls Nautical Training Corps|access-date=23 July 2018 }}</ref>

The GNTC became a colleague organisation with the Sea Cadet Corps in 1963,<ref name="portsmouth">{{cite web| url = http://www.ataleofonecity.portsmouth.gov.uk/topic/the-girls-training-corps/| title = The Girls Training Corps|accessdate=20 July 2018|work=BBC}}</ref> often sharing facilities such as [[Raven's Ait]] (then also known as [[TS Neptune]]). The GNTC became a full member of the Sea Cadet Organisation in March 1980, when the [[Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Defence]] approved the admission of girls into the Sea Cadets,<ref name="dover">{{cite web |url=https://doverhistorian.com/2014/03/15/dover-sea-cadets-a-proud-contribution-to-dovers-maritime-history/ |title=Dover Sea Cadets – A proud contribution to Dover’s maritime history|date=15 March 2014|access-date=20 July 2018}}</ref> this led to a name change to Girls Nautical Training Contingent. This continued until 1992<ref name ="cardiff"/> when the organisation was absorbed, and all girls became members of the Sea Cadet Corps.<ref name="sea cadets">{{cite web |url=http://seacadets.ms-sc.org/About-the-Sea-Cadets/History |title=History |access-date=20 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080427001827/http://seacadets.ms-sc.org/About-the-Sea-Cadets/History |archive-date=27 April 2008}}</ref>
[[File:NATCG.jpg|thumb|300px| Members of the WJAC, GNTC and GTC during the 1940s|alt=]]

==See also==

*[[The Marine Society & Sea Cadets]]
*[[Navy League (disambiguation)|Other Navy League organisations]]
*[[Sea Cadet Corps (United Kingdom)]]
*[[Bermuda Sea Cadet Corps]]
*[[Girls Venture Corps Air Cadets]]
*[[Navy League Wrennette Corps]]
*[[The Nautical Training Corps]]

==External links==
*[http://www.royalnavalmuseum.org/info_sheets_navy_league.htm Royal Naval Museum Fact Sheet 106 - the Navy League] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061008182318/http://www.royalnavalmuseum.org/info_sheets_navy_league.htm |date=8 October 2006 }}

==References==
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