HMS Foudroyant — 80-gun Third Rate

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. A British two-decker. Not a named portrait of Foudroyant.

Overview

Foudroyant is already on Hardy Thomas Masterman — Captain HMS Victory. After Hardy was posted captain into HMS Vanguard — Nelson’s Nile Flagship on 2 October 1798, he was Nelson’s flag captain in Vanguard, then in Foudroyant, then in St George, then in HMS Amphion, and finally in HMS Victory — Overview from 31 July 1803.¹

Service

This note covers that flag-captain posting only. A launch year, a later career, and St George’s own note stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE. The 80-gun rating is the title already used on the Hardy note; do not add a specification table beyond that.²

Sources

• @white2005nelson
• @beatty1807nelson
• Hardy Thomas Masterman — Captain HMS Victory

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Footnotes

1. Flag-captain sequence Vanguard / Foudroyant / St George / Amphion / Victory from 31 July 1803: Hardy Thomas Masterman — Captain HMS Victory. ↩

2. Title already HMS Foudroyant — 80-gun Third Rate on that note. Do not invent a launch year or a later career. ↩