Trinity Portholes is a Father & Son team who, for over 30 years, have been general merchants, importing and exporting a variety of different commodities to, and from, far away places. For many years we were a secret well kept by our trade customers but now, with an incalculable amount of help from our faithful staff and the arrival of the internet, we are able to show the World the fruits of our efforts.

Over the years we have searched scrap-yards and ship-breakers in over ten countries around the World, travelling over a million miles, in specting many classic Ships, on our mission to find the last of the original bronze & brass portholes and fittings. In recent years we have found the job of  finding quality fittings is much harder now than it used to be. The only Ships that we can find these brass & bronze portholes onboard of are some Naval vessels and the high quality Shipsbuilt previous to 1960. For example, even prestigious vessels such as the Canberra, built in 1963, did not escape the modernisation that was stripping ocean liners of their very high quality ingredients in that era. We were the only nautical artefacts dealers to go onboard the Canberra when She was being scrapped and we were greatly disappointed to find  that 99% of fittings and controls were aluminium with plastic buttons! Today, there are very few vessels built before 1960 and they are very hard to find, in fact when we hear of one being scrapped we do our best to get onboard immediately and check the equipment and fittings in the hope that they will be brass.

In the beginning we were only looking for the best  portholes from British or American built vessels and trying to buy them in good quantities. Shortly after we started to buy the authentic fittings we realised that the only portholes that we could find on the Ships that were being scrapped were very large and resources were limited. So we designed and manufactured a high quality porthole; a non-opening,opening and oval pattern with the emphasis on them being strong and practical and yet still retaining the character found in their original counter parts. We have now sold thousands of these traditional portholes and boat fittings and it satisfies us to know that there are houses & house-boats, narrow boats & barges, steam-boats and private yachts, all around the World with an object of pleasure that we helped to create.

Finally, Id like to mention the price of these items. We have always tried to sell good quantities ofmaterial for a small amount of profit and that reflects in our prices.The original boat fittings are available in this shop for a fraction ofthe amount of money it takes to make a new one and are in as good condition, and the prices of the portholes that we manufacture are determined by a small profit margin and the fluctuating prices of high quality gun-metal and brass, earning us the reputation of having Marine fittings at sub marine prices.