Английская Википедия:HMS Trincomalee
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Шаблон:Infobox ship imageШаблон:Infobox ship careerШаблон:Infobox ship characteristicsHMS Trincomalee is a Royal Navy Шаблон:Sclass sailing frigate built shortly after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. She is now restored as a museum ship afloat in the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Hartlepool, England.
History
1812–1847
Trincomalee is one of two surviving British frigates of her era—her near-sister Шаблон:HMS (of the modified Leda class) is now a museum ship in Dundee. After being ordered on 30 October 1812, Trincomalee was built in Bombay, India, by the Wadia family[1] 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.
Work on the Trincomalee began in May 1816. Ceremonially an engraved silver nail was hammered into the ship's keel by the master shipbuilder Jamsetjee Bomanjee Wadia, this being considered vital for the ship's well-being, according to Parsi Zoroastrian tradition.[2] With a construction cost of £23,000 (approximately £2,015,000 in 2020), Trincomalee was launched on 12 October 1817. Commander Philip Henry Bridges sailed her to Portsmouth Dockyard, where she arrived on 30 April 1819, with a journey costing £6,600.[3] 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.[4]
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.[5]
1847–1895
Trincomalee departed from Portsmouth in 1847 and remained in service for ten years, serving on the North American and West Indies station. During her time, she was to help quell riots in Haiti and stop a threatened invasion of Cuba, and serve on anti-slavery patrol. In 1849, she was despatched to Newfoundland and Labrador before being recalled to Britain in 1850. In 1852 she sailed to join the Pacific Squadron on the west coast of America,[6] and upon returning to England in 1857, she was put back 'in ordinary' after arriving at Chatham on 4 September.[2]
In 1860 Trincomalee was fitted out and then in January 1861 towed to Sunderland to become tender to the drill ship Шаблон:HMS, whose role was to train Naval Volunteers boys aged 15 to 16 years being signed up to serve for 10 years on reaching the age of 18 years. During this time Trincomalee's gunports were again modified several times to accommodate different types of training armament. Then in 1862 she was moved to West Hartlepool, then the third largest port in Britain, and moored in the Union Dock to become an independent drill ship.[2]
TS Foudroyant
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 Geoffry Wheatly Cobb, restored, and renamed Foudroyant in honour of Шаблон:HMS, his earlier ship that had been wrecked in 1897.[7]
She was used in conjunction with Шаблон:HMS as an accommodation ship, a training ship, and a holiday ship based in Falmouth,then Milford Haven.[8] The relocation caused great dismay in Falmouth.[9]
She remained in service until 1986, after which she was again restored and renamed back to Trincomalee in 1992.[10]
Later years
Now listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, following her recent restoration Trincomalee has become the centrepiece of the National Museum of the Royal Navy based in Hartlepool.
Trincomalee holds the distinction of being the oldest British warship still afloat[11] as Шаблон:HMS, 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.Шаблон:Citation needed
Gallery
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Trincomalee beating out of San Francisco on 23 Sept 1854
See also
- Шаблон:HMS – 18th-century first rate ship of the line
- Шаблон:USS – 18th-century US Navy frigate
- Шаблон:HMS – a surviving sister ship
- Historical Maritime Society
References
Further reading
- Andrew Lambert – Trincomalee: the last of Nelson’s frigates, Chatham Publishing, 2002, Шаблон:ISBN
External links
Шаблон:Leda class frigate Шаблон:National Historic Ships Шаблон:Oldest surviving ships (pre-1919)
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
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- ↑ The Portsmouth Telegraph letter dated St. Helena 29 Jan. 1819
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ HMS Foudroyant
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Death Of Mr. G. Wheatly Cobb, Western Morning News, 6 April 1931, p8.
- ↑ Jordaan, Peter, A Secret Between Gentlemen: Suspects, Strays and Guests, Alchemie Books, 2023, pp123-128.
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
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