Annexe ‘A’ Details the service history of the HMS Foudroyant.

Information extracted from a number of sources including Wikipedia entries. Date Action / Location Key Personnel Feb 1758 The 80-gun ‘Foudroyant’, was captured from the French. Our HMS HMS Foudroyant was named after her. Jan 1788 HMS HMS Foudroyant ordered by the Admiralty May 1789 Keel laid down at Plymouth Dockyard Designed by Sir John Henlsow May 1798 HMS Foudroyant launched & Commissioned Under Command of Captain Thomas Byard Oct 1798 Atlantic. In Action: Battle of Tory Island (off Donegal Coast) Nov 1798 Off Cornwall. Change of Command Capt William Elphinstone Dec 1798 . Change of Command Capt James Richard Dacres Mar 1799 Gibraltar. Change of Command Capt William Brown Mar 1799 Off Cadiz May 1799 Port Mahon. Jun 1799 . Change of Command Capt Thomas Hardy Jun 1799 Nelson’s fleet arrived in to support Emma, Lady Hamilton. Lord Neapolitan Royal family. HMS Foudroyant landed Horatio Nelson 500 Troops supporting Neapolitans. Nelson commenced affair with Lady Hamilton. HMS Foudroyant is Nelsons Flagship Aug 1799 Left Naples Sept 1799 Transported Sardinian Royal Family to Leghorn (Livorno, Italy) Oct 1799 Port Mahon. Change of Command Sir Palermo, Sicily , Dec 1799 St Pauls Bay, Malta, landing 89 Regt Jan 1800 Palermo. Nelson hoists his flag on HMS Lord Horatio Nelson Foudroyant Feb 1800 Malta. Carrying Sicilian Troops Mar 1800 In Action: against French ship ‘Guillaume Tell’ reported Casualties 8 killed and 61 wounded. Apr 1800 Siracuse. Jun 1800 Neapolitan King & Queen on board, with Sir William Hamilton and Lady Hamilton To Livorno. Nelson lowers his flag and travels to with the Hamiltons Sep 1800 Gibraltar. Nov 1800 Gibraltar. Change of Command. Capt Dec 1800 HMS Foudroyant captured French ship ‘Hyppolite’ Feb 1801 Marmaris to Abukir Bay () Mar 1801 General Abercromby died from wounds aboard. Following a French Counter attack at fall of Abukir Bay Jun 1801 Change of Command Capt Wm Young Change of Command Capt T Stephenson Change of Command Capt John Clarke Searle Aug 1801 Transport of British Army to Alexandria Sep 1801 Change of Command Capt John Elphinstone Jul 1802 HMS Foudroyant ‘Paid Off’ at Devonport (Plymouth) after brought war to an end. Jun 1803 HMS Foudroyant re-commissioned Capt Peter Spicer Feb 1804 Change of Command Capt Peter Puget Feb 1805 Change of Command Capt Edward Kendall Feb 1805 HMS Foudroyant becomes Sir Thomas Graves Flagship in the blockade of Rochefort Dec 1805 Change of Command Capt John Erskine Change of Command Capt John Chambers White Mar 1806 In Action: Capture of two French ships. Nov 1806 Change of Command Capt Richard Peacock May 1807 Capt Norbourne Thompson M\y 1807 HMS Foudroyant Flagship blockading Lisbon Jun 1808 To Rio de Janeiro arriving Aug 1808 Capt Charles Marsh Schomberg Jan 1809 Capt John Davie May 1809 Entered Rio de Plata (River Plate) Capt Richard Hancock May 1809 On convoy duty Aug 1812 Returned to England. Lay at Anchor till Jan 1815 Jan 1815 In Dock for repairs lasting 4 years. 1819 Roled as Guard Ship in Plymouth Dock until 1860 1862 Converted to A Gunnery Training Ship until 1884 1884 Dockyard duties 1891 Put on to the ‘Sales List’. Bought by J Read of for £2350 and quickly resold to German Shipbreakers, prompting protests. Bought back by Wheatly Cobb for use as a Boys Training ship. In order to raise £20,000 for refurbishment, the ship was to be exhibited at Seaside resorts. Jun 1897 HMS Foudroyant is towed to Jun 1897 Wrecked on 16 Jun during a violent storm

Online Sources: British Wreck site at: http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?31280 Wikipedia entry at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_HMS Foudroyant_(1798) HMS HMS Foudroyant Creative Commons Copyright Free Images http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/photos/'HMS Foudroyant'