French ship Océan (1790)

	Océan drawn by Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio
History
France
Namesake	Ocean
Ordered	30 September 1785
Builder	Arsenal de Toulon
Laid down	12 August 1786 as États de Bourgogne
Launched	8 November 1790
Out of service	2 August 1850
Renamed	Ordered and completed as États de Bourgogne; Côte d'Or 22 January 1793; Montagne 22 October 1793; Peuple 25 May 1795; Océan 30 May 1795.
Stricken	1851 floating battery, 1855/56 broken up
Fate	Broken up in 1856
General characteristics
Class and type	Océan-class ship of the line
Displacement	2 700 tonnes
Length	65.18 m (213.8 ft) (196.6 French feet)
Beam	16.24 m (53.3 ft) (50 French feet)
Draught	8.12 m (26.6 ft) (25 French feet)
Propulsion	sail, 3,265 m2 (35,140 sq ft)
Complement	1,079
Armament	Lower deck:; lower deck: 32 36-pounder guns; middle deck: 34 24-pounder guns; upper deck: 34 12-pounder guns; forecastle: 18 8-pounder guns, 6 36-pounder carronades;

Océan was a 118-gun first-rate three-decker ship of the line of the French Navy, lead ship of her class. She was funded by a don des vaisseaux donation from the Estates of Bourgogne.

She was ordered as États de Bourgogne and was launched at Brest in 1790. Like many French ships of the line during the Revolutionary period, she was renamed several times, becoming Côte d'Or in January 1793, Montagne in October 1793, Peuple on 17 May 1795, and a matter of weeks later again renamed, to Océan. She served until 1855.

A large model of a generic Océan-class ship, named Océan, at the 1⁄16 scale can be seen at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.

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