Right royal knees up!

[mickshep]

This Sat & Sun, (3rd, 4th), H M Barque Endeavour and the Replica Russian frigate Shtandart are sailing into Hartlepool Marina for their biggest ever Maritime Festival. They are going to engage each other with full broadsides off Redcar at around 0900hrs then again just off the marina entrance at about 1200hrs. There then follows a weekend of revelry with street markets, live music, fun fair, battle re-enactments aboard and around HMS Trincomalee, (our own restored Frigate built in 1817). Displays by just about everyone with anything to do with the sea, All are welcome, with the more the merrier. Regards, Mike.

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[William_H]

Well I will be rooting for the Ausies in Endeavour (from a distance) (her home port) so you can all support the Ruskies.

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[mickshep]

The whole w/end has apparently got a bit of a Britain V France Napoleonic sub theme so hopefully they'll put the Fench tricolor aboard the Shtandart, Here in Hartlepool we have a famous story about a french frigate that was driven ashore during the Napoleonic War in a storm. As the local population gathered on the beach the only survivor to make it ashore was the pet monkey belonging to the captain for which the crew had made a mock up of a French sailors uniform. The Monkey was promptly arrested and charged with being a french spy. A public trial was hastily convened on the beach and the Monkey, in the absence of any defence, (or for that matter interpreter) was found guilty and was hanged on the spot. The hanged monkey logo appears on many products and association banners here in the town. Here in Hartlepool we have a cracking museum dedicated to the era which has its own website, www.hms-trincomalee.co.uk Its well worth a visit.
All the best to those of you down under. If we get any good photographs I'll try to post some of them.
Regards, Mike

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