200 years of sails and teak: Touring Britain's HMS Trincomalee

200 years of sails and teak: Touring Britain's HMS Trincomalee

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https://www.cnet.com/news/200-years-of-sails-and-teak-touring-britains-hms-trincomalee/

It's a great museum and ship, in a rather unvisited corner of the UK. Here's how it looks up close and below decks.

The Trincomalee, named for the city in what is now Sri Lanka, is a Leda-class frigate, one of 47 built between 1800 and 1830. Unlike the majority of her sister ships, the Trincomalee is made of teak, not oak. This was partially due to the lack of oak in England, being more than a decade into the Napoleonic wars. The other reason was where she was built: clear on the other side of the world in Bombay, India, now known as Mumbai.