Trincomalee

A 38-gun Leda-class frigate of the Leda-class built of teak in 1817 at the Wadia Shipyard, Bombay, for the Royal Navy as the HMS Trincomalee. Built to the lines of the French frigate Hebe which was taken in 1782. Her dimensions are: 45,7×12,2×3,9 m [150'1"½/125'3"×39'9"×13'9"], and tonnage: 1066 grt, and 1447 displ. tons.
Armament:

Lower deck:  28 × 18 pound
Quarterdeck:  8 ×  9 pound and 6 × 32 pound carronades.
Forecastle:   2 ×  9 pound and 2 × 32 pound carronades.

1812 [?]: Ordered.
1816 May: Keel laid.
1817 October 12: Launched at the Wadia Shipyard, Bombay.
1835: Rebuilt [?].
1845: Rebuilt [?].
1847: Cut down to a 26 gun corvette (6th rate).
1861: Used as a sail training ship for the Royal Naval Reserve, Sunderland.
1863: Laid up in West Hartlepool.
1897 May 19: Sold to J. Reed Co. to be broken up.
1897: Bought by Mr Wheatley Cobb to be used as a stationary boy's training ship and renamed Foudroyant.
1991-1993: Repairs at West Hartlepool.
199_: Renamed Trincomalee.

Present owners (1994): The Foudroyant Trust. Gosport, Portsmouth, England.

Select Bibliography

A.J. Marsh: The Story of a Frigate.
Portsmouth Museums Society, Portsmouth.
Brian Horton: H.M.S. Trincomalee.
Profile Publications, Windsor, 1979. A4, 20 pp, ill.
W.O.B. Majer: The Frigate Foudroyant.
The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 71, London, 1985. pp 435-436.

Updated 2002-05-07 by Lars Bruzelius

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