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Hartlepool Historical Quay. The National Museum of the Royal Navy ( NMRN ) is a maritime exposition and visitor attraction in Hartlepool , County Durham , Northern England . [ 1 ] The concept of the attraction is the thematic re-creation of an 18th-century seaport, in the time of Lord Nelson , Napoleon and the Battle of Trafalgar .
English: Historic Quay, Hartlepool. View of the buildings 318313 dwarfed by the three masts of the restored C19th sailing frigate 1605079 taken from the entrance to the car park that serves the Museum of Hartlepool and the Maritime Experience heritage centre.
Hartlepool is home to a National Museum of the Royal Navy (more specifically the NMRN Hartlepool). Previously known simply as The Historic Quay and Hartlepool's Maritime Experience, the museum is a re-creation of an 18th-century seaport with the exhibition centre-piece being a sailing frigate, HMS Trincomalee.
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, 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.
Hartlepool Lifeboat Station is located at Middleton, next to the port town of Hartlepool, on the north-east coast of England, in County Durham. A lifeboat was first stationed at Hartlepool in 1803 by the Hartlepool Lifeboat Committee. Manangement of the station was transferred to the RNLI in February 1875. [1]
The fine art collections are displayed at Hartlepool Art Gallery. It is free to enter and houses hundreds of exhibits telling the story of Hartlepool, England, a North East coastal town with a rich heritage in shipbuilding, fishing and the sea. The largest exhibit is the Paddle Steam Ship PS Wingfield Castle. Built in 1934, for many years it ...
Hartlepool is a railway station on the Durham Coast Line, which runs between Newcastle and Middlesbrough via Hartlepool. The station, situated 18 miles 5 chains (29 km) south-east of Sunderland, serves the port town of Hartlepool in County Durham , England.
The paper was founded in Hartlepool in 1877 as The Northern Daily Mail and continued to be printed in the town until August 2006, when the printing staff were told they would be made redundant on 30 September.