- Source: French ship Foudroyant (1799)
The Foudroyant ("Lightning") was a Tonnant-class 80-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
She was started in Rochefort from 1793, and renamed to Dix-huit fructidor in December 1797 in honour of the Jacobin Coup of 18 Fructidor, as she was still on the stocks, but reverted to Foudroyant in February 1800 before completion, after the Directory fell.
She took part in cruises in the Caribbean under Villaret de Joyeuse.
On 15 September 1806, while under jury rig some 15 miles (24 km) off Havana, she encountered HMS Anson, under Captain Charles Lydiard. Anson, mistakenly believing Foudroyant distressed, attacked, and was driven off.
She took part in the Battle of the Basque Roads, in which she was badly damaged but was later repaired.
She was eventually broken up in 1834.
References
Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. p. 211. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
External links
Les bâtiments ayant porté le nom de Foudroyant
1809 - Fouras (17) - La bataille des brûlots à bord du vaisseau "le Régulus"
The French Navy in 1816
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- List of ships of the line of France
- French ship Pégase (1781)
- List of ships of the line of the Royal Navy
- HMS Poulette (1799)
- List of ships captured in the 18th century
- Parthenopean Republic
- Tonnant-class ship of the line
