French ship Fougueux (1785)

	Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Fougueux (1785), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name	Fougueux
Namesake	"Impetuous"
Builder	Lorient shipyard
Laid down	1784
Launched	19 September 1785
Fate	Wrecked 22 October 1805
General characteristics
Class and type	Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement	1,966 tonnes; 3,260 tonnes fully loaded;
Length	55.87 metres (183 ft 4 in) (172 pied)
Beam	14.90 metres (48 ft 11 in)
Draught	7.26 metres (23 ft 10 in) (22 pied)
Propulsion	Up to 2,485 m2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails
Armament	74 guns:; Lower gundeck: 28 × 36-pounder long guns; Upper gundeck: 30 × 18-pounder long guns; Forecastle and Quarter deck:; 16 × 8-pounder long guns; 4 × 36-pounder carronades;
Armour	Timber

Fougueux was a Téméraire-class 74-gun French ship of the line built at Lorient from 1784 to 1785 by engineer Segondat.

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