Lot Essay
'Foudroyant' is recorded as a 3rd rate of 1798 being sold in 1892
Details
HMS 'Foudroyant'
A lignum-vitae stool created from a spool slavaged from the vessel with three turned oak legs also made from salvaged material, the metal hub of the spool engraved "Foudroyant" Nelson's Flagship wrecked at Blackpool June 16th 1897 -- 10¼in. (26cm.) high
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A lignum-vitae stool created from a spool slavaged from the vessel with three turned oak legs also made from salvaged material, the metal hub of the spool engraved "Foudroyant" Nelson's Flagship wrecked at Blackpool June 16th 1897 -- 10¼in. (26cm.) high
See illustration
Literature
British Warship Names, Manning and Walker, Putnam 1959