H.M.S. "Foudroyant," as altered and refitted in 1802" The Foudroyant, 80 guns, 2,055 tons, was launched at Plymouth in 1798, and named after a ship which had been captured from the French forty years previously. She served as Nelson's flagship in the Mediterranean in 1799. In 1892 she was sold to a German firm to be broken up but was repurchased, remasted, and brought to Blackpool for exhibition. Here, during a heavy gale on the 16 June 1807, she parted for cables and went ashore, her crew being rescued by the lifeboat. She was finally destroyed by the storm of 28th November 1897.