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Crew diaries reunited with HMS Trincomalee on Teesside

Crew diaries which had been locked away for 150 years are being reunited with Britain's oldest surviving warship at a special ceremony on Teesside.

The journals were written by sailors on board HMS Trincomalee, which is berthed in Hartlepool.

The vessel, built in 1817, is being incorporated into the new National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN).

The journals have been sitting in Royal Navy archives in Portsmouth for the past 150 years.

Built in India in 1817, HMS Trincomalee was brought to Hartlepool in 1987, where it took more than 10 years to restore. It is now the main attraction at Hartlepool's Maritime Experience and attracts 54,000 visitors a year....
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