The Friends of
HMS Trincomalee
1993 to 2025
Welcome to the website, the Friends of HMS Trincomalee, 1993 to 2025.
There is plenty of information relating to the history of HMS Trincomalee on the ARCHIVE page which is free to download, please credit the Friends should you use this material elsewhere.
The PUZZLES page may entertain you for a while.
The Friends of HMS Trincomalee was a registered charity run by volunteers to support the preservation, exhibiting and promotion of our ship, now at the Historic Quay in Hartlepool, England. HMS Trincomalee is the oldest British Warship still afloat. Her keel was laid down at Bombay dockyard on 25th April 1816.
The society was founded in 1993 and from 2007 to 2025 was a registered charity, number 1117790.
In December 2015, Lord de Saumarez of Guernsey, a descendant of Admiral Sir James Saumarez, became the Friends' Patron.
A brief history of the ship from 1812 to 1986 can be downloaded via the ARCHIVE page.