The Belfry Gate of the Trincomalee Naval Dockyard, a national architectural monument, is unknown to many. The once twin-towered belfry is now a single tower with its twin long gone. It has served as ...

Trincomalee is also known as Gokkana (Pali) and Tirukonamalai (Tamil). The city is built on a peninsula which divides the inner and outer harbour. It was a major maritime and trading post since the ...

The United States (US) Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus visited the Naval Dockyard, Trincomalee on Monday to witness the ongoing bilateral training between the Sri Lanka and US Navies, Navy said. The ...

The Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) launched ‘Trincomalee Naval Exercise - 2025’ (TRINEX – 25) yesterday (22 Jul 25) at the Naval Dockyard, Trincomalee with the Commander Eastern Naval Area Rear Admiral Ravindra ...

Naval history lovers can now watch a model of the HMS Trincomalee, the oldest ship in the world still afloat. Naval history lovers can now watch a model of the HMS Trincomalee, the oldest ship in the ...

Former Sri Lanka PM Mahinda Rajapaksa is under protection at the Trincomalee naval base. He is facing calls for his arrest from Opposition politicians. There are allegations against him for inciting ...

My father was a doctor in the British Royal Navy, and I grew up traveling by troop-ship between the last outposts of the British Empire – Trincomalee, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Malta, Aden, Singapore – ...

In a solemn and dignified ceremony held at Trincomalee’s Ostenburg Point on Sept. 27, the ashes of the late Lieutenant Norman Schofield, a Royal Navy officer, and Mrs. Marian Schofield, his late ...