HMS Romulus (1785)
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HMS Romulus was a 36-gun fifth rate frigate of the Flora class, built for the Royal Navy and launched in September 1785. At the outbreak of the French Revolutionary War, Romulus was despatched to the
Romulus in full sail, c. 1806
A 1:25 scale model of Romulus on display at Snowshill Manor, Gloucestershire
Romulus in a storm
Landing troops at Aboukir Bay on 8 March 1801
Vice-Admiral of the Blue Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle, 1st Baron Fremantle, was a Royal Navy officer and politician who served in the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary and Napoleon
HMS Romulus (1785)
…the 80-gun Victoire and its fore and main topmasts collapsed overboard. The leading British ship was the 36-gun frigate, HMS Inconstant under Captain Thomas Fremantle, which reached the damaged Ça Ira within an hour of the collision and opened fire at close range, causing further damage. Seeing the danger, the French…
Engraving by Edward Scriven after an Edmund Bristow portrait, 1822
Plaque to Fremantle at the Upper Barrakka Gardens in Valletta