Trincomali Channel

Trincomali Channel (48˚58'00" 123˚35'00" Between Galiano I and Saltspring I, Gulf Is). HMS Trincomalee (as it is more commonly spelled), a 24-gun, 1,312-tonne frigate under Capt Wallace Houstoun, served on the Pacific Station, 1853–56. This venerable wooden sailing ship, named after a city and important RN base in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), was built of Malabar teak at Bombay in 1817. It was modelled on the French frigate Leda and originally carried 46 guns. The vessel was stored from 1819 to...

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