 As part of their required education, all naval cadets were taught to play a musical instrument; Georg von Trapp selected the violin.He graduated four years later and completed two years of follow-on training voyages, including one to Australia, as a cadet aboard the sail training corvette "SMS Saida II".On the voyage home he visited the Holy Land where he met a Franciscan friar who took him on a tour of all the biblical sites he wanted to see.