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Thread #128010 Message #2861901
Posted By: Les from Hull
11-Mar-10 - 11:54 AM
Thread Name: French naval songs c.1760
Subject: RE: French naval songs c.1760
Bubbyrat - that Foudroyant one was built in Plymouth Dockyard, launched in 1798 and wrecked at Blackpool in 1897. The ex-French prize Foudroyant (captured in the Mediterranean in 1758) was broken up in 1787.
It was not unusual to name a ship after a previously captured one. The Americans built a 'Macedonian' named for the one they captured from the British but was not worth keeping, and in turn the British built an HMS President as a copy of the one captured from the Americans in 1815.