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llynglas
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 Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2010 4:59 am Post subject: Hulks in Portsmouth Harbour circa 1963 |
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As a young kid I lived in Southsea, next to Portsmouth. I visited the harbour at least once a week. I remember seeing at least on hulk moored on the Gosport side of the harbour. She probably two decks. I've asked my dad about this. He remembrs at least one hulk, does not remember her name, but believes she was towed out to sea around 1966 and used for gunnery practice.
Does anyone know if there were hulks as late as 1963, and if so which ships they were and their fate?
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Jon |
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PMarione
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| Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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Here is a possibility : Trincomalee
| Quote: | She was ordered on 30 October 1812 and was finally launched on 12 October 1817. Soon after completion she was sailed to Portsmouth Dockyard, where she arrived on 3 April 1819 and was promptly laid up in reserve. She was cut down to a 26-gun sixth-rate corvette at Portsmouth between April 1845 and September 1847, then fitted for sea service at a combined cost of £21,643.
After serving as a hulk, she was restored to her original appearance, and now serves as a museum ship.
The Trincomalee is one of two surviving British frigates of this era — her near-sister HMS Unicorn (of the modified Leda class) is now a museum ship in Dundee. The Trincomalee was built in Bombay, India in 1817 by the Wadia family [1] of shipwrights in teak, due to oak shortages in Britain as a result of shipbuilding drives for the Napoleonic Wars. The ship was named Trincomalee after an action in 1782 between the Royal and French navies off the Ceylon (Sri Lanka) port of that name.
Trincomalee finished her Royal Navy service as a training ship, but was 'reduced to reserve' in 1895 and sold for scrap 2 years later on 19 May 1897. However she was then purchased by George Wheatley Cobb, restored, and renamed Foudroyant in honour of HMS Foudroyant, his earlier ship that had been wrecked in 1897.[2] She was used in conjunction with HMS Implacable as an accommodation ship, a training ship, and a holiday ship based in Falmouth then Portsmouth and remained in service until 1991 when she was again restored and renamed back to Trincomalee. Until his death in 1929, the Falmouth-based painter Henry Scott Tuke used the ship and its trainees as subject matter.
The Trincomalee holds the distinction of being the oldest British warship still afloat as HMS Victory, although 52 years her senior, is in dry dock. |
from wikipedia
The Unicorn was never rigged, and only went to sea for the voyage from Chatham to Dundee. |
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llynglas
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| Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 5:35 pm Post subject: Brilliant |
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I think you are right. I seem to remember her being called Foudroyant and the sinking of her partner ship Implacable in 1949 would be what my dad remembered. I had not realized that Trincomalee had been in Portsmouth for so long or that she had been renamed (twice). I had thought she had been an oil tanker dock or something similar.
Also, I just looked at the pictures of HMS Unicorn when they moved her in 1962 or so, and she looks remarkably similar to the ship I remember. Roof and all.
many thanks,
Jon |
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