HMS Trincomalee is a Royal Navy Leda-class sailing frigate built shortly after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. She departed from Portsmouth in 1847 and remained in service for ten years, serving on the North American and West Indies station. She was placed in reserve again in 1895 and sold for scrap two years later on 19 May 1897.
About HMS Trincomalee in brief
HMS Trincomalee is a Royal Navy Leda-class sailing frigate built shortly after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. She is one of two surviving British frigates of her era, her near-sister HMS Unicorn is now a museum ship in Dundee. The ship was built in Bombay, India, by the Wadia family of shipwrights in teak, due to oak shortages in Britain as a result of shipbuilding drives for theNapoleonic wars.
She departed from Portsmouth in 1847 and remained in service for ten years, serving on the North American and West Indies station. In 1852 she sailed to join the Pacific Squadron on the west coast of America. She was placed in reserve again in 1895 and sold for scrap two years later on 19 May 1897.
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