HMS Poictiers was a 74-gun Royal Navy third rate. This ship of the line was launched on 9 December 1809 at Upnor. During the War of 1812 she was part of the blockade of the United States. She was broken up in 1857.
Poictiers fired a few ineffectual shots. The position of the channel made it necessary for Yankee to pass close to Poictiers
Poictiers captures 'Yorktown', 1813, by Irwin John Bevan
HMS Poictiers figurehead, a sometime replacement of the original
HMS Tonnant was an 80-gun ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She had previously been Tonnant of the French Navy and the lead ship of the Tonnant class. The British captured her in August 1793 during the Siege of Toulon but the French recaptured her when the siege was broken in December. Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson captured her at Aboukir Bay off the coast of Egypt at the Battle of the Nile on 1 August 1798. She was taken into British service as HMS Tonnant. She went on to fight at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, during the Napoleonic Wars.
Tonnant at the Battle of the Nile, by Louis Lebreton.
Death of Du Petit-Thouars, by Auguste Mayer
In action at Trafalgar, HMS Tonnant engaging the Spanish '74' Monarca
Tonnant accepting Monarca's surrender, painted by Nicholas Pocock
