FAQs

Using our online cadetship application form is the first step you need to apply for a maritime cadetship. Familiarise yourself with the process using our Maritime Cadetship application guide.

London Maritime School will remain in regular contact throughout your cadetship as the cadet manager. We visit you at college and communicate with you whilst at college and at sea.

That is the risk in any position, however, your training will be sufficiently diverse and varied for there to be opportunities in other sectors of the industry available to you.

Ships operate 24/7, 365 days a year. Usually, when you first join you will be on day work – this is 7.00am – 5 pm (ish) with breaks for lunch. Then as time goes on, you move onto watch keeping, again this is normally split into three shift patterns 8am-12 noon, 12 noon-4pm and 4pm-8pm. This means you will do two – 4-hour shifts a day i.e. 8-12 in the morning and 8-12 in the evening.

During training, Cadets usually get some time off to study and, on occasions, when the ship is in port you may be allowed to go ashore.

Yes, we hope that there will be a number of cadets at the same college – it all depends on who accepts and what course they are doing.