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词条 HMS Trincomalee
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  1. History

     1812–1847  1847–1857   TS Foudroyant   Later years 

  2. Gallery

  3. See also

  4. References

  5. Further reading

  6. External links

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HMS Trincomalee is a Royal Navy {{sclass-|Leda|frigate|0}} sailing frigate built shortly after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. She is now restored as a museum ship in Hartlepool, England.

History

1812–1847

Trincomalee is one of two surviving British frigates of her era—her near-sister {{HMS|Unicorn|1824|6}} (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.

With a construction cost of £23,000, Trincomalee was launched on 12 October 1817. Captain Philip Henry sailed her to Portsmouth Dockyard where she arrived on 30 April 1819, with a journey costing £6,600.[2] 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.[3]

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.[4]

1847–1857

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.[5]

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 George Wheatley Cobb, restored, and renamed Foudroyant in honour of {{HMS|Foudroyant|1798|6}}, his earlier ship that had been wrecked in 1897.[6]

She was used in conjunction with {{HMS|Implacable|1805|6}} as an accommodation ship, a training ship, and a holiday ship based in Falmouth then Portsmouth. She remained in service until 1986, after which she was again restored and renamed back to Trincomalee in 1992.[7]

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[8] as {{HMS|Victory}}, 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.{{Citation needed|date=March 2012}}

Gallery

See also

  • {{HMS|Victory}} - 18th century first rate ship of the line
  • {{USS|Constitution}} - 18th century US Navy frigate
  • {{HMS|Unicorn|1824|6}} - a surviving sister ship
  • Historical Maritime Society
  • List of Royal Navy ships in the Pacific Northwest

References

1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.zoroastrian.org.uk/vohuman/Article/The%20Wadias%20of%20India.htm |title=The Wadias of India |publisher=zoroastrian.org.uk |accessdate=25 July 2015}}
2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.hms-trincomalee.co.uk/history/construction |title=Trincomalee Construction |publisher=The National Museum |accessdate=25 July 2015}}
3. ^The Portsmouth Telegraph letter dated St. Helena Jan. 29, 1819
4. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.hms-trincomalee.co.uk/history/royal-navy-service |title=HMS Trincomalee - Royal Navy Service |publisher=The National Museum |accessdate=25 July 2015}}
5. ^HMS Foudroyant
6. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.hms-trincomalee.co.uk/history/training-days-ts-foudroyant |title=HMS Trincomalee - Training days as TS Foudroyant |publisher=The National Museum |accessdate=25 July 2015}}
7. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.hms-trincomalee.co.uk/history/restoration-and-the-present-day |title=Restoration and the present day |publisher=The National Museum |accessdate=25 July 2015}}
8. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.hms-trincomalee.co.uk/about-us |title=HMS Trincomalee - About us |publisher=The National Museum |accessdate=25 July 2015}}

Further reading

  • Andrew Lambert - Trincomalee: the last of Nelson’s frigates, Chatham Publishing, 2002, {{ISBN|1-86176-186-4}}

External links

{{Commons category|HMS Trincomalee (ship, 1817)}}
  • HMS Trincomalee official website
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