HMS Trincomalee

Selected articles from the magazine "Quarterdeck"

which was produced for


the Friends of HMS Trincomalee


followed by whole magazines which can be downloaded


Brief Histories of the Ship


TK001 The History of HMS Trincomalee 1812 to 1986

TK002 Celebrating 200 years of HMS Trincomalee


1812 to 1847


QD016 A Most Unfortunate Encounter

QD012 Of Oak and Teak

QD040 The Bombay Dockyard in the early Nineteenth Century

QD004 Captain Philip Bridges

QD066 The Maiden Voyage of HMS Trincomalee

QD059 Eliza Bunt's Diary 1817 to 1819

QD030 HMS Trincomalee at St Helena

QD044 HMS Trincomalee and the General


First Commission 1847 to 1850


CL01 CREW LIST - FIRST COMMISSION


QD027 The Slave Trade and Richard Laird Warren

QD052 Naval Court Martial

QD065 John Herbert Seccombe & the Lion


Second Commission 1852 to 1857


QD057 HMS Trincomalee supporting the Arctic Search 1854

QD023 HMS Trincomalee and the Crimean War

QD056 HMS Trincomalee at Honolulu

QD007 Pioneers of Vancouver Island & HMS Trincomalee

QD001 Charles Parry

QD025 Lieutenant John Haverfield

QD036 Lambton Loraine (1838 - 1917)

QD033 The Curious Case of the Susan Sturges

QD063 William Cox Chapman, 1st Lieutenant on HMS Trincomalee

QD068 Lieutenant George Palmer's Diary

QD071 Sailors in Port

QD073 Captain's Remark Book for HMS Trincomalee 1853

QD074 Master's Remark Book for HMS Trincomalee 1853


1857 to 1897


QD047 HMS Trincomalee at Sunderland

QD028 David Lyall MD

QD061 HMS Trincomalee at Hartlepool 1863 to 1877

QD026 HMS Trincomalee at Southampton 1877 to 1890s (1881 Census)


1897 to 1939


QD075 HMS Trincomalee at Cowes - 1901 Census

QD002 Aboard the Foudroyant 1922

QD051 Seamen & their Uniform, fined for a technical offence at Falmouth

QD054 At the Movies with the Foudroyant

QD058 An Appeal for HMS Implacable by Wheatley Cobb in 1922

QD072 Aboard the Foudroyant in the 1920s


1939 onwards


QD020 HMS Foudroyant September 1943

QD025 Lieutenant Colonel Harold Wyllie

QD041 Class of '46 Where are they now?

QD022 Memories of TS Foudroyant in the 1950s

QD049 Princess Margaret visits the Foudroyant

QD021 Living on the Foudroyant 1958 to 1966

QD019 Lieutenant Commander John Chrisp

QD062 TS Foudroyant and the Lion

QD064 The Restoration of HMS Trincomalee

QD069 Opera Comique on board TS Foudroyant


Other Articles 


QD067 Naval Communication in the 19th Century

QD003 Three Captains of HMS Trincomalee

QD005 Jack Steadfast

QD006 Sailors' Tattoos and their Meanings

QD008 An Improvised Christmas Dance


QD009 From Little Acorns Grow

QD010 Ships' Weekly Newspapers in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

QD011 Valentines Day aboard HMS Plover 1853

QD013 Volunteering for HMS Trincomalee

QD014 Three Historic Ships


QD015 Christmas 1858 on board the Thames City

QD017 Crossing the Line

QD018 Royal Yacht Victoria & Albert II

QD024 Lieutenant John Haverfield on board HMS Trincomalee 1855

QD029 The Carron Company


QD031 How to Fire your Cannon

QD032 Sea Shanties

QD034 Boy's Manual of Seamanship & Gunnery 1871

QD035 The Frigate Unicorn

QD037 The Boatswain


QD038 The Boatswain's Call

QD039 HMS Foudroyant by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

QD042 The Strange Tale of the Daedalus Sea-serpent

QD043 Off the Beaten Track

QD045 Sails and the Sail-maker

QD050 Sheet Anchor


QD046 Sir James Saumarez

QD048 Widows' Men, The Naval Pension Scheme in 1815

QD053 Examples of our Ship in Advertisements and Promotions

QD055 A Week aboard TS Foudroyant in August 1959

QD060 Ships' Figureheads

QD070 The Effects of Lightning at Sea



Magazines that can be downloaded  on clicking the pictures of their front covers