French ship Nestor (1810)

	Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Nestor (1810), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name	Nestor
Namesake	Nestor, son of Neleus and Chloris and the King of Pylos.
Builder	Pierre Degay and others, Brest
Laid down	February 1809
Launched	21 May 1810
Decommissioned	1849
Fate	Broken up before 1865
General characteristics
Class and type	Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement	2,966 tonnes; 5,260 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:; 6 × 8-pounder long guns; 10 × 36-pounder carronades;
Armour	Timber

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

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