Warsash Maritime Academy
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| Type | Public |
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| Established | 1902, previously known as Warsash Maritime Centre, & the Southampton School of Navigation |
| Address | Warsash, Hampshire, Southampton, Hampshire, UK |
| Colours | Red and White |
| Website | Warsash Academy |
Coordinates: 50°50′42″N 1°18′11″W / 50.845°N 1.303°W
Warsash Maritime Academy (WMA, formerly Warsash Maritime Centre) is a maritime training college and is part of Southampton Solent University. The academy campus is just east of Southampton aside the River Hamble and Warsash village. The college provides education, training, consultancy and research to the international shipping and off-shore oil industries. It is one of the United Kingdom's colleges responsible for the training of the British Merchant Navy. The courses on offer cover a wide range of maritime education and training from deck and engineer officer cadetships, including degree pathways, to senior officer certificates of competency, together with the associated safety training.
The Southampton School of Navigation originated with the death of a Southampton wine merchant Henry Robinson Hartley, in 1850. He bequeathed £42,524 to the Southampton Corporation which they received some years later. After advice from the Secretary of the Department of Science Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair, it was decided that a School of Navigation should be set up, which would be fitting with the recent development of Southampton as a great seaport. After the need to raise additional funds the school was eventually finished in 1902. It was granted university college status and known as the Hartley Institute, based in South Hill in the city of Southampton.
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