Scale: 1:48. A modern amateur made full hull model of the 80-gun two-decker HMS ‘Foudroyant’ (1798). The model was acquired partially completed due to the unfortunate death of its maker. It is constructed in the plank on frame method and is complete with laid decks, canon, rails, capstans and various other fittings, most of which are stored loose with the model. It is currently away from the museum undergoing completion.

The ‘Foudroyant’ was built at Plymouth Dockyard and launched in 1798. Measuring 184 feet in length by fifty feet in the beam, she carried a crew of up to 650 men. The ‘Foudroyant’ had a very active career and saw action in the Mediterranean, South America, and was under the command or the flag ship of some very distinguished officers including Lord Keith, Rear Admiral Lord Nelson and Captain Thomas Hardy. From 1840 she was laid up in ordinary, became a gunnery training ship during the 1860’s before being sold to German shipbreakers in the early 1890’s. She was then rescued from breaking and purchased by J. R. Wheatley Cobb as a training ship for boys. Unfortunately, she was stranded on Blackpool Sands during a fundraising and propaganda cruise and later broken up in situ in 1897.