Static training ship "HMS Foudroyant". She was launched in 1817 as a "Leda" Class 38-gun, 18 pdr Fifth Rate Frigate named "HMS Trincomalee" (1,063 tons burthen); she was designed by Sir John Henslow and built at Bombay of teak, which proved almost impervious to wear or decomposition. The "Leda" Class was the standard RN frigate of the Napoleonic Wars and afterwards, 47 being launched 1800-1830 (plus two cancelled whilst building in 1831). "HMS Trincomalee" was reclassified as a 42-gun frigate in 1839 and converted to a 26-gun, 32 pdr Sixth Rate Corvette in 1845-47, then to a 16-gun training ship in 1861 and was renamed "HMS Foudroyant" in 1903, eventually being moored at Portsmouth, where she is pictured at the Navy Day, 08/82. Scanned photograph taken with a Canon AE-1 Program. In 1987 she was towed to West Hartlepool and restored to original condition and name.
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/58433307@N08">Hugh Llewelyn</a> from Keynsham, UK
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