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Museum recreating life in a Georgian harbour. The standout exhibit is HMS Trincomalee, the oldest Royal Navy warship still afloat (HMS Victory is older, but is in dry dock). Trincomalee was a frigate, launched in Bombay in 1817 and brought to Portsmouth, but then mothballed until 1845. She thereafter served around North America, including anti-slavery patrols. (Her sister ship HMS Unicorn, mothballed from launch and never in service, can be visited in Dundee). Somewhat anachronistic is the paddle steamer Wingfield Castle, a Humber ferry from 1934 to 1974 when the A15 Humber Bridge was completed. The National Museum of the RN is an umbrella organisation with other exhibits at Belfast, Portsmouth, Ilchester and Gosport.
Royal Navy Museums, Hartlepool is a maritime exposition and visitor attraction at the west end of Hartlepool Marina in Hartlepool, County Durham, Northern England. The concept of the attraction is the thematic re-creation of an 18th-century seaport, in the time of Lord Nelson, Napoleon and the Battle of Trafalgar. HMS Trincomalee, a Royal Navy frigate and Britain's oldest warship afloat is at the centre of the quay. She was built in Bombay, India in 1817. The 190th anniversary of the ship's official launch was on Friday 12 October 2007.
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This Anglican church dates from the 12th century, overlying the former Hartlepool or Heretu Abbey founded in 640. Saint Hilda (614-680) was its second abbess and went on to found Whitby Abbey; Hartlepool Abbey disappears from history when she moved on, and it's not clear if it was abandoned or simply unimportant.