The Royal Naval College was a Royal Navy training establishment between 1873 and 1998, in the centre of the Maritime GreenwichWorld Heritage Site in London, United Kingdom. It was the Royal Navy's staff college, providing advanced training for mid-ranking officers.
From 1962 to 1996 the College housed JASON, an operational nuclear reactor for naval training. It was fully dismantled in 1999.
In 1998 the Royal Navy left Greenwich and handed over responsibility for the site to the Greenwich Foundation. In late 1999, the University of Greenwich began teaching in the Queen Anne, Queen Mary and King William Courts, and in October2001, the Trinity College of Music began teaching in King Charles Court.
The grounds of the Old RoyalNavalCollege are open to the public from 8am until 6pm.
Greenwich Hospital was established in 1694 by Royal Charter for the relief and support of seamen and their dependants and for the improvement of navigation.
In 1869 the Hospital was closed, and in 1873 the complex of buildings became the RoyalNavalCollege, where officers from all over the world came to train in the naval sciences.
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