The HMS Trincomalee
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HMS Trincomalee is a
Royal Navy Leda-class sailing frigate built shortly after the end of the
Napoleonic Wars . She is now restored as a
museum ship in
Hartlepool .
Trincomalee is one of two surviving British frigates of her era—her near-sister
HMS Unicorn (of the modified Leda class) is now a museum ship in
Dundee . After being ordered on 30 October 1812,
Trincomalee was built in
Bombay (todays Mumbai) by the
Wadia family of shipwrights in
teak , due to oak shortages in Britain as a result of shipbuilding drives for the Napoleonic Wars. The ship was named
Trincomalee after the 1782
Battle of Trincomalee off the Ceylon (
Sri Lanka ) port of that name.
With a construction cost of £23,000, Trincomalee was launched on 12 October 1817. Captain Philip Henry sailed her to Portsmouth Dockyard where she arrived on 30 April 1819, with a journey costing £6,600. During the maiden voyage the ship arrived at Saint Helena on 24 January 1819 where she stayed for 6 days, leaving with an additional passenger, a surgeon who had attended Napoleon at Longwood House on the island, Mr John Stokoe. After being fitted out at a further cost of £2,400, Trincomalee was placed in reserve until 1845, when she was re-armed with fewer guns giving greater firepower, had her stern reshaped and was reclassified as a sixth-rate spar-decked corvette .
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Trincomalee finished her Royal Navy service as a training ship, but was placed in
reserve again in 1895 and sold for scrap two years later on 19 May 1897. She was then purchased by entrepreneur George Wheatley Cobb, restored, and renamed
Foudroyant in honour of
HMS Foudroyant , his earlier ship that had been wrecked in 1897. She was used in conjunction with
HMS Implacable as an accommodation ship, a training ship, and a holiday ship based in
Falmouth then
Portsmouth . She remained in service until 1986, after which she was again restored and renamed back to
Trincomalee in 1992.
Now listed as part of the
National Historic Fleet , following her recent restoration Trincomalee has become the centrepiece of the
historic dockyard museum in
Hartlepool .
Trincomale e holds the distinction of being the oldest British warship still afloat as
HMS Victory , although 52 years her senior, is in
dry dock . Until his death in 1929, the
Falmouth -based painter
Henry Scott Tuke used the ship and its trainees as subject matter.
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