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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.
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.
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.
The society aims to entertain and inform and is linked to educational sites. [3] It has performed reenactment events of the Napoleonic period aboard HMS Victory at the Royal Naval Dockyard at Portsmouth, HMS Trincomalee, which is permanently moored at the historic quay at Hartlepool, the National Maritime Museum, and many more locations in the UK.
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 ...
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.
Heugh Battery was one of three erected in 1860 to protect the fast-growing port of Hartlepool. Heugh and Lighthouse Battery were placed close by the lighthouse and armed with four and two 68pr smoothbore guns respectively. The third battery, Fairy Cove mounted three of the same weapons and was slightly further to the north at the end of the ...
Hartlepool Headland showing the town wall built in the Middle Ages. The Heugh Battery, one of three constructed to protect the port of Hartlepool in 1860, is located in the area along with a museum. [1] The area made national headlines in July 1994 in connection with the murder of Rosie Palmer, a local toddler. [2]