HMS Lutine (1779) the war, when the was sunk. It tolls when a member of the Royal Family dies and was heard after the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. It is now rung for ceremonial purposes to commemorate disasters such as the 9/11 disaster, the Asian tsunami, and the London Bombings, and is always rung at the start and end of the two minutes silence on Armistice Day. The bell has hung in four successive Lloyd's Underwriting Rooms: There is also a chair and table at Lloyd's made from the rudder of the frigate. The rudder
HMS Lutine (1779) HMS Lutine (1779) Lutine was a frigate which served in both the French Navy and the Royal Navy. She was launched by the French in 1779. The ship passed to British control in 1793 and was taken into service as HMS "Lutine". She sank among the West Frisian Islands during a storm in 1799. She was built as a French with 32 guns, and was launched at Toulon in 1779. During the French Revolution, "Lutine" came under French Royalist control. On 18 December 1793, she was one of sixteen ships handed over to a British fleet at the end of