Antwerp | Race 1 | Aalborg | Cruise in Company | Kristiansand | Race 2 | Hartlepool |
Hartlepool - Sat 7th Aug - Tue 10th Aug
Tall Ships Race 2010
In
the middle ages the Bishop of Durham used Hartlepool to import his
supplies of food, wine and anything else he needed after which the
inland harbour had silted up and had even had crops grown on it. In
1795 the population of Hartlepool was only about a thousand.
Coal and trains led to the rapid construction of the docks between
1840 and 1850 and they prospered for many years. The western docks
were converted into a marina in the 1990's whilst the Victoria docks
remain open to commercial ships.
HMS
Trincomalee, built in Bombay for the Admiralty in 1817, is the
oldest ship afloat in the UK and the last of the commissioned
frigates of the Nelson era. She saw service in the West Indies and
throughout the vast Pacific in the nineteenth century before taking
a role as a training vessel, largely in Portsmouth, that lasted
until 1986, by which time she was in poor condition.
The Ship was sensitively restored in Hartlepool between 1990 and
2001 in a project that gained widespread acclaim with the Trust
winning an International Maritime Heritage Award and is now the
focal point of Hartlepool’s Maritime Experience. The Ship is within
the Core Collection of the National Historic Ships Committee’s
listing because of her exceptional importance to the maritime
heritage of the UK.
Antwerp | Race 1 | Aalborg | Cruise in Company | Kristiansand | Race 2 | Hartlepool |
