French ship Léopard (1787)

	Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Léopard (1787), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name	Léopard
Namesake	Leopard (Panthera pardus)
Builder	Brest
Laid down	15 November 1785
Launched	22 June 1787
In service	July 1787
Fate	Scuttled by fire on 12 February 1793
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

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

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