When was HMS Trincomalee known as Foudroyant?
After being sold by the Royal Navy in 1897, HMS Trincomalee was renamed Foudroyant and, under that name, was a training and holiday ship throughout most of the 20th century.
The ship was based off Portsmouth and then Gosport from the 1930s to 1987 and received trainees from schools, colleges and youth organisations.
The trainees learnt all kinds of seamanship including knot tying, signalling, rowing and sailing using the ship’s fleet of small boats.