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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 afloat in the National Museum of the Royal Navy , Hartlepool , England .
HMS Trincomalee was a sloop of Dutch or French origin that the British Royal Navy took into service in 1799. She was destroyed in action in 1799 with the loss of all ...
HMS Trincomalee was the French privateer Gloire, launched in 1799 at Bayonne that the Royal Navy captured in 1801, and sold in 1802 into mercantile service. The French recaptured her, naming her Émilien. HMS Culloden captured her in 1806 and the Royal Navy took her into service briefly as HMS Emilien before selling her again around 1808.
HMS Trincomalee, a Royal Navy frigate and Britain's oldest warship afloat is at the centre of the quay. She was built in Bombay, India in 1817. She was built in Bombay, India in 1817. The 190th anniversary of the ship's official launch was on Friday 12 October 2007.
The Battle of Trincomalee was fought between a British fleet under Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Hughes and a French fleet under the Bailli de Suffren off the coast of Trincomalee, then Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka), on 3 September 1782.
HMS Meander; HMS Pactolus; HMS Tiber; HMS Araxes; HMS Tanais; The Admiralty ordered seven more vessels to this design in 1812–15, with those constructed in Britain reverting to oak and those constructed in Bombay using teak: HMS Diamond; HMS Amphitrite; HMS Trincomalee, has survived to the present day. HMS Thetis; HMS Arethusa; HMS Blanche ...
HMS Trincomalee (or Trincomaley [ edit ] Admiral Peter Rainier wrote on 17 June 1801 to Lord Clive , Governor in Council, at Fort George , that he, Rainier, had found it necessary to purchase Gloire for "his majesty's service", that he had named her Trincomalee , and that he intended to put her under the command of a Commander .
[5] Sir Lambton joined HMS Trincomalee at Valparaiso in early 1853, at the age of 14 years, and was a Midshipman aboard the ship until 1857 at the end of her second commission based in the Pacific. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1858 and served in the Mediterranean, then in 1864 he was appointed Flag-Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral the Hon. Joseph ...