HMS Barfleur (1768)
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HMS Barfleur was a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, designed by Sir Thomas Slade on the lines of the 100-gun ship Royal William, and launched at Chatham Dockyard on 30 July 1768, at a cost of £49,222. In about 1780, she had another eight guns added to her quarterdeck, making her a 98-gun ship; she possessed a crew of approximately 750. Her design class sisters were the Prince George, Princess Royal, and Formidable. She was a ship of long service and many battles.
The Battle of the Saintes, 12 April 1782: surrender of the Ville de Paris by Thomas Whitcombe, painted 1783, shows Hood's Barfleur, centre, attacking the French flagship Ville de Paris, right, at the Battle of the Saintes.
HMS Barfleur, by Joseph Marshall
Thomas Pye
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Sir Thomas Pye was an admiral of the Royal Navy who served during the War of the Austrian Succession, the Seven Years' War, and the American War of Independence. He was briefly Member of Parliament for Rochester, and served as commander of several of the navy's principal stations and ports.
Pye in a memorial he dedicated to his father Henry c. 1762, at All Saints' Church, Faringdon
Admiral Thomas Mathews, 1743, by Claude Arnulphy. Pye served under Mathews in the Mediterranean during the 1740s
The Battle of Ushant, by Théodore Antoine Gudin. The battle led to a bitter dispute between Keppel and Palliser, with Pye presiding over Keppel's court martial