Edie, Something of the quite interesting career of the FOUDROYANT, built 1798, is given in the top half of the page at: http://www.royalnavalmuseum.org/info_sheets_foudroyant.htm Ron Mapplebeck (UK) ***** On 19/07/2011 23:48, Edie McArthur wrote: > Hi I have several Ships my son in laws ancestor James Bryan of > Somerset, served on between the years shown below. I have no idea > where they served and what battle and wondered if anyone can help me > with this please. This information came from the Greenwich Hospital > Pensioner discharge from the Royal Marines paper. I am now waiting > for the papers from the National Archives Kew of James Bryans son, > Silas Bryan. He attended the Greenwich Hospital School. > > As yet I haven't found any other full record but as James was 27 when > he was discahrged Consumptive in 1808 to the Greenwich Hospital, he > would have been aout 15 when he joined the royal Marines. Would he > have apprenticeship papers or was that necessary > > Defiance 8/7/1796 -10/11/1798 Tigress 23/12/1798 -10/6/1799 Pearl > 27/7/1799 -31/10/1801 Foudroyant 1/11/1801 - 7/12/1801 Massina > 8/12/1801 - 13/9/1802 Calcutta 21/11/1802 - 11/6/1804 Crescent > 27/8/1804 - 19/2/1806 Alert 18/4/1806- 31/7/1807 > > Thanks Edie > > > > > > > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please > send an email to MARINERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > message >