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HMS Foudroyant

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Two Royal Navy ships have been named Foudroyant, the name derived from the French, meaning Thunderbolt. A third was planned but later renamed:

  • HMS Foudroyant (1758) was an 80-gun third rate, captured from the French in 1758 and broken up in 1787.
  • HMS Foudroyant (1798) was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line, launched in 1798. She was used as a guardship from 1820, and a training ship from 1862. She was sold in 1892 and used as a school ship until being wrecked in 1897.
  • HMS Foudroyant was to have been a battleship. She was renamed HMS Neptune shortly before her launch in 1909.

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