Aug 27 2007
HMS Trincomalee
I missed the monkey, but this is HMS Trincomalee at Hartlepool, the oldest European warship afloat. She was launched in 1817 and is made of Malabar teak. They had some scrap teak blocks laying about from the last refurbishment, but they wouldn’t fit in my luggage.
August 29th, 2007 at 20:58 pm
What’s this HMS stuff?
I thought all ships were USS!
August 30th, 2007 at 15:33 pm
Believe it or not, there actually was history before the US came along…