French ship Jupiter (1789)

	Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Jupiter (1789), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name	Jupiter
Namesake	Jove; The Mountain; Democracy; Batavian Republic;
Ordered	19 August 1787
Builder	Brest
Laid down	June 1788
Launched	4 November 1789
Commissioned	August 1790
Decommissioned	1807
Renamed	Montagnard in 1794; Démocrate on 18 May 1795; Jupiter on 30 May 1795; Batave on 27 April 1798;
Fate	Broken up in Brest in 1807
General characteristics
Class and type	Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement	1,966 tonnes; 3,260 tonnes fully loaded;
Length	55.87 metres (183.3 ft) (172 pied)
Beam	14.90 metres (48 ft 11 in)
Draught	7.26 metres (23.8 ft) (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

Jupiter was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

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