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Nelson's Foudroyant
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Post Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 4:30 pm    Post subject: Nelson's Foudroyant Reply with quote

The only quality of Barrington's novel "The Divine Lady" is probably that it was used for the script of the Frank Lloyd's eponymous "talky" of 1929.

But something in the preface raised my curiosity:
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As I sat, years ago, in the Admiral's cabin of Nelson's flag-ship, the Foudroyant, the thought of this romance came to me, for this ship was the sea-shrine of that great but errant passion. She is a wreck now, her stranded ribs are green with weed, her bones are broken in the wash of the tide. A grave at sea amidst the answering thunder and flash of guns would have been a nobler ending.


So the Foudroyant was still in existence in the early 1900s.

Any info?

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Post Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 10:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The FOUDROYANT was sold out of the Service in 1892 and eventually became a privately owned boys' training ship. Wrecked on Blackpool Sands in 1897 (being replaced by the frigate TRINCOMALEE).
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Post Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 10:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

So I suppose that's there that Barrington mused.

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