Navies of both India and Britain held joint exercises earlier this month in memory of stealth frigate HMS Trincomalee, built 200 years ago in Mumbai. The exercise was conducted simultaneously with the 'UK India Year of Culture 2017' which saw participation by Indian warship INS Tarkash. Docked in the Thames for a week before it set sale for Portugal, Tarkash's arrival in London was celebrated with a series of Indian cultural performances as crowds danced to patriotic tunes.
One of the two surviving British frigates of Her era, HMS Trincomalee is a Royal Navy frigate built shortly after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. She is currently restored as a museum ship in Hartlepool, England. The ship was built in Bombay, now Mumbai, due to severe oak shortages in Britain as a result of shipbuilding drives for the Wars. It was named Trincomalee after the 1782 Battle of Trincomalee off the Ceylon, in Sri Lanka.
