High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Foxhound (1806) was an 18-gun Cruizer class brig-sloop built by King at Dover and launched in 1806. Cmdr. Pitt Burnaby Greene commissioned her in May 1807. On 17 March 1809, Foxhound was one of a fleet of 60 vessels of various kinds, under Admiral Lord Gambier, that anchored off Basque Roads to attack the French fleet lying within. The 15 French vessels, commanded by Vice-Ad. Zacharie Allemand, lay behind a boom protected by 30 guns. On 11 April, 12 fireships, accompanied by bomb vessels and escorted by men-of-war, all under the command of Admiral Lord Thomas Cochrane, broke the boom under a heavy fire.

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