Posted by Sukumar Shan on Facebook Colombo, November 21: HMS Trincomalee: Built in 1817 shortly after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. and the Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT عربي ...

Trincomalee is not located in an arid zone, as it gets more than 50 inches of annual rainfall, Samarajiva pointed out. But as a port and industrial zone, it will have to have a lot of water, he ...

Seven years after the war, the Trincomalee district, one of the biggest multi-ethnic regions in Sri Lanka, is rapidly returning to its pre-war glory, with the displaced people coming back to reclaim ...

By AN OCTOGENERIAN Trincomalee had derived its name from the anglicized version of the old Tamil word,‘ Thiru- kona-malai ‘ meaning ‘Lord of the Sacred Hill’. it is apparent that over the ages ...

The city of Trincomalee has a reputation mainly for its large harbour. It houses major naval bases and an Air Force base too. Read the sky deep into the night. Rise early to witness the daybreak sneak ...

HMS Trincomalee - now the main attraction at the National Museum of the Royal Hartlepool - was built in India for the Royal Navy in 1817. Seven painters, three using ropes to paint its sides, ...

India’s plans to invest in a strategic port in Sri Lanka as a counterbalance to China’s massive infrastructure investments in the Indian Ocean island country got a push Wednesday as Sri Lankan ...

The Trincomalee is one of the oldest ships you can tour, but not the oldest. On the other side of the Atlantic, the USS Constitution is 20 years her senior and still sailing.

A wooden figurehead of the oldest warship still afloat is to be restored. The so-called Turbaned Man was carved for HMS Trincomalee, which itself was built of teak for the Royal Navy in India in ...

A wooden figurehead of the oldest warship still afloat is to be restored. The so-called Turbaned Man was carved for HMS Trincomalee, which itself was built of teak for the Royal Navy in India in 1817.