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It opened to the public in July 1994. Before April 2005 it was known as Hartlepool Historic Quay.The museum was built by Teesside Development Corporation as part of the economic regeneration of old industrial sites of Cleveland, on the derelict docks that were formerly used for industries such as shipbuilding and as timber yards etc.
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.
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.
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 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 National Museum of the Royal Navy was created in early 2009 to act as a single non-departmental public body for the museums of the Royal Navy.With venues across the United Kingdom, the museums detail the history of the Royal Navy operating on and under the sea, on land and in the air.