National History Museum – Mahébourg Mauritius.
A tree-lined drive off the Main Road, south of Mahébourg, leads to the National History Museum. The museum is housed in an old chateau that was home to French sugar barons, the De Robillard family. The fine colonial building served as an infirmary after the battle of Vieux Grand Port when two wounded naval officers, the British Rear-Admiral Sir Nesbit Willoughby and French Rear-Admiral Victor Duperré, were brought here to recover.
NATIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM – MAHÉBOURG MAURITIUS.
The battle is described in the museum and there are numerous other relics from shipwrecks, including the wooden hull of the British frigate Magicienne, sunk in the battle. A newspaper cutting records the fate of the British steamer Trevessa, which sank hundreds of kilometres off the Mauritian coast in 1923. The survivors were washed up near Bel Ombre 25 days later, having survived on biscuits (see under 'Le Morne to Baie du Cap', Day Six - The South, p. 100). Remains of the biscuits and the cigarette-tin lid used to measure their water rations bear witness to their ordeal.