This is a XVIIIIth century photograph of HMS Foudroyant. She was a second rate of 80 guns with a builders measure of 2,062 tons. She measured 184 feet in length and 52 1/2 feet in beam. Foudroyant was built at Plymouth Dock Yard and launched on March 31, 1798. She was assigned to serve as a guardship in 1820 and as a training ship in 1862. On december first 1892 she was sold to a Mr. J. Read and resold to J. R. Cobb as a training ship. Foudroyant was wrecked near Blackpool England on June 16, 1897.

HMS Foudroyant served as Nelson's flagship following the Battle of the Nile.

This photograph is from a series of photographic studies of old Royal Navy craft which was complied and published in the XVIIIIth century.