The National Museum of the Royal Navy
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NMRN tells the story of the Royal Navy from our sites in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, Hartlepool, HMS Caroline in Belfast & Fleet Air Arm Museum in Yeovilton.
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27 April 1819, HMS Trincomalee
#OnThisDay in 1819, HMS Trincomalee was paid off having been delivered to Portsmouth from Bombay where the ship was built.
Once moored in Portsmouth, the ship was roofed over and not used again until 1847 when she was given her first commission.