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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aragon" data-source="post: 5679438" data-attributes="member: 134516"> The Harbour The great European powers vied with one another for the mastery of the harbor. The Portuguese, the Dutch, the French and the English, each held it in turn, and many a sea fight was staged off the cliffs of Trincomalee. Of all harbors in the East, it can be said that it is largely today as Nature endowed it. <img src="http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h78/premchand/472430795_597a1ca8aa.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Trincomalee was the British naval headquarters in the Pacific theater and had an airfield from which U.S. planes operated against the Japanese in Myanmar and Malaya. Trincomalee was later attacked by Japanese bomber planes in 1942. A British naval base remained at Trincomalee until 1957, when Sri Lanka abrogated its defense agreement with Britain and took over the base. <img src="http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h78/premchand/Trincomalee-harbour-1910.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> 1910 <img src="http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h78/premchand/453143403_e82722b0db_o.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> 1950's (note the oil tanks and the runway, used as Air Force Base now) A British Navy Frigate was named HMS Trincomalee in the 19th Century signalling the importance of the port to the British, it is the oldest British warship still to be afloat</blockquote>

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