Foudroyant

A 38-gun frigate of the Leda-class built of teak in 1817 at the Wadia Shipyard, Bombay, for the Royal Navy as the HMS Trincomalee. Her dimensions are: 45,7×12,2×3,9 meters [150'1"½/125'3"×39'9"×13'9"], and tonnage: 10 66 grt, and 1447 displ. tons.

1812 [?]: Ordered.
1816 May: Keel laid.
1817 October 12: Launched at the Wadia Shipyard, Bombay.
1835: Rebuilt [?].
1845: Rebuilt [?].
1847: Cut down to a 26 gun corvette (6th rate).
1861: Used as a sail training ship for the Royal Naval Reserve, Sunderland.
1863: Laid up in West Hartlepool.
1897 May 19: Sold to J. Reed Co. to be broken up.
1897: Bought by Mr Wheatley Cobb to be used as a stationary boy's training ship and renamed Foudroyant.
1991-1993: Repairs at West Hartlepool.

Present owners (1994): The Foudroyant Trust. Gosport, Portsmouth, England.

Select Bibliography

A.J. Marsh: the Story of a Frigate.
Portsmouth Museums Society, Portsmouth.
Brian Horton: H.M.S. Trincomalee.
Profile Publications, Windsor, 1979. A4, 20 pp, ill.
W.O.B. Majer: The Frigate Foudroyant.
The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 71, London, 1985. pp 435-436.

Updated 1995-08-16 by Lars Bruzelius

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