French ship Romulus (1781)

A model of this ship is to be found on display in the NT property Snowshill Manor, Broadway, Gloucestershire.

HMS Romulus served under Captain George Gayton in the British squadron off America during the American Revolutionary War.

[1] On 19 February 1781,[1] the 64-gun Éveillé, along with the frigates Surveillante and Gentille, and the cutter Guêpe, captured her in Chesapeake Bay.

In September 1781, she ferried troops to Annapolis for the Siege of Yorktown, in a division under Le Saige de La Villèsbrunne.

[1] In 1788, Résolution was decommissioned in Brest and in June 1789, she became a hulk at Isle de France[Note 2][1]

HMS Romulus in conflict with Éveillé (64) and two frigates