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royal dockyards, the generic name given to the naval dockyards of the Royal Navy, probably an abbreviation of Royal Naval Dockyard. In the early days of the British Navy there were five royal dockyards in Britain: Deptford, Woolwich, Chatham, Portsmouth, and Plymouth. As the navy grew in size and complexity, the dockyards at Deptford and Woolwich were closed down, though Deptford remained as the principal victualling yard, and further naval dockyards in Britain were established at Sheerness, Haulbowline in south-west Ireland, and Rosyth in Scotland. In the colonial era of British expansion, a number of naval (royal) dockyards were constructed in other parts of the world, the principal ones being at Gibraltar, Malta, Halifax, Bermuda, Simonstown, Trincomalee, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
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Another battle for Trincomalee
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo; 1/8/2005; ; 700+ words
; HHMS Trincomalee in Hartlepool is the oldest ship afloat in the United Kingdom. Trincomalee itself is under water, inundated by the...but the homeless figure runs to 96,000. Trincomalee is the major town in north-east Sri Lanka...
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USAID, HELLENIC AID JOIN TOGETHER TO HELP TSUNAMI-AFFECTED TRINCOMALEE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 4/8/2008; 700+ words
; ...Anuradhapura Junction Public Market in Trincomalee on Friday, April 4. Officials...project, were joined at the event by Trincomalee District Government Agent, Major General T. T. R. DeSilva and Trincomalee Urban Council Chairman G. Mugunthan...
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Feature: Trincomalee's tourism badly hit by tsunami, more helpneeded
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 12/29/2004; 700+ words
; Feature: Trincomalee's tourism badly hit by tsunami, more help needed TRINCOMALEE, Sri Lanka, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- Leaving...people dead in Sri Lanka's eastern port of Trincomalee, the tsunami that struck the city on Sunday...
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Chaaya Blu Trincomalee to open next year
Newspaper article from: Daily News; 11/27/2009; 532 words
; ...Keells Hotels Group, Club Oceanic Trincomalee has closed operations to undergo...inventory to 80 rooms. Chaaya Blu Trincomalee It is expected that the hotel will reopen in May 2010 as "Chaaya Blu Trincomalee" joining the "Chaaya Hotels and...
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Trincomalee gets [pounds sterling]120k cash boost.
Newspaper article from: Hartlepool Mail (Hartlepool, England); 12/14/2007; 673 words
; ...board. Delighted bosses at the HMS Trincomalee Trust in Hartlepool are celebrating...work will be carried out on board the Trincomalee so the public can get a greater insight...tandem with an exhibition about HMS Trincomalee that is being established in a quayside...
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Trincomalee: tourism industry badly hit by tsunami
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 12/29/2004; 515 words
; Trincomalee: tourism industry badly hit by tsunami TRINCOMALEE, Sri Lanka, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Besides killing more than 600 people in Sri Lanka's eastern port of Trincomalee, the tsunami raided the city on Sunday also hit the...
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Indian PM urged Rajapakse to save Tamils in Trincomalee
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 4/13/2006; 700+ words
; ...Tamil violence erupted in Sri Lanka's Trincomalee town, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan...violence in the eastern port town of Trincomalee after a bomb blast Wednesday evening...main talking point was the situation in Trincomalee. He also offered condolences over the...
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Trincomalee residents need more help
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 12/29/2004; 470 words
; Trincomalee residents need more help TRINCOMALEE, Sri Lanka, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- After the tsunamis...other relief items can be seen on the road from Colombo to Trincomalee. On a small lorry at the road side of Nilaveli, volunteers...
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Tigers pound Trincomalee harbour.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.; 8/1/2006; 452 words
; Tigers pound Trincomalee harbour Colombo, Aug 1 (PTI) Tamil...at Sri Lanka's main naval port of Trincomalee today, destroying at least one gunboat...the naval compound next to the main Trincomalee harbour. However, there were no...
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HMS Trincomalee birthday celebrations.
Newspaper article from: Hartlepool Mail (Hartlepool, England); 10/15/2007; 524 words
; ...celebrated a milestone birthday. The HMS Trincomalee, the UK's oldest ship afloat, celebrated...James Atkinson, chairman of the HMS Trincomalee Trust, the charity that owns the ship...were sponsored by the Friends of HMS Trincomalee, the trust's supporters organisation...
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Trincomalee
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Trincomalee , town (1995 est. pop. 50,000...NE Sri Lanka, on the Bay of Bengal. Trincomalee has one of the world's finest natural...port of Colombo have forced the use of Trincomalee's port, little used commercially...
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Vedda
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...southeast of the island, inland from the towns of Batticaloa and Trincomalee and extending westward to the Verugal, Mahaweli, and Gal...Coast Veddas live along the coast between Batticaloa and Trincomalee. The Anuradhapura Veddas live in the North Central Province...
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Sri Lanka
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the World
...of Sri Lanka Major Cities: Colombo, Kandy Other Cities: Anuradhapura, Galle, Jaffna, Matara, Negombo, Ratnapura, Trincomalee EDITOR'S NOTE This chapter was adapted from the Department of State Post Report for Sri Lanka. Supplemental material has...
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Tamil of Sri Lanka
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement
...population concentrations are found on the island of Mannar and along the eastern coastal littoral, stretching from north of Trincomalee to Batticaloa. Many of today's Sri Lankan Tamils refer to their traditional Northern and Eastern Province homelands using...
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World War II, Navy in
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...Dutch, and British naval forces in the Far East and Indian Ocean were destroyed or scattered. The British naval base at Trincomalee, Ceylon, was bombed by the same carrier force that hit Pearl Harbor. But the Allies were not forced into a negotiated...
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