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Every owner who bought or will buy the game before Monday 3rd of August will receive a free HMS Trincomalee DLC. If you were thinking about buying the game - this is a perfect moment. Ship DLCs will allow you to get a free ship from the admiralty (including with seasoned wood) once in 24 hours.
From 3rd of august - price of the game will drop as well.
- Trincomalee was built in from Teak in India by the master shipbuilder Jamshoot Wadia
- Wadia Group is still operating in India and owns multiple businesses including an airline and a cricket team
- Trincomalee blueprints were stolen from HMS Java by USS Constitution
- HMS Java was originally French sailing under name of "Renommee"
- Trincomalee was built based on the Leda Class designs
- Interestingly enough, another Leda Class ship HMS Shannon, captured USS Constitution weaker sister-ship Chesapeake
- Leda class design was based on the French ship "Hebe"
- Hebe was captured in combat by HMS Rainbow which was the first combat use of the Carronades
- Hebe was designed by Jacques Sane
- Sane also designed the Ocean, Duguay-Trouin, the Redoutable. A lot of ships at Trafalgar were designed by Sane
- Trincomalee was a training ship alongside HMS Implacable. Implacable was at Trafalgar under the name Duguay-Trouin
- Trincomalee operated till 1986
- These days Trincomalee is the oldest British warship afloat!
3rd August - HMS Shannon - another leda class ship - was launched at Chatham Dockyard