French ship Orient (1791)

	Battle of the Nile, August 1st 1798 at 10 pm, by Thomas Luny. Orient is depicted aflame at the centre left.
History
France
Name	Dauphin-Royal
Builder	Toulon Arsenal
Laid down	May 1790
Launched	20 July 1791
Commissioned	August 1793
Out of service	August 1798
Renamed	Sans-Culotte September 1792; Orient May 1795;
Fate	Destroyed by explosion at the Battle of the Nile, August 1798
General characteristics
Class and type	Océan-class ship of the line
Displacement	5,095 tonnes
Length	65.18 m (213 ft 10 in) (196.6 French feet)
Beam	16.24 m (53 ft 3 in) (50 French feet)
Draught	8.12 m (26 ft 8 in) (25 French feet)
Propulsion	sail
Sail plan	3,265 m2 (35,140 sq ft)
Complement	1,079
Armament	120 guns:; Lower deck: 32 36-pounder guns; Middle deck: 34 24-pounder guns; Upper deck: 34 12-pounder guns; Quarterdeck and forecastle: 18 × 8-pounder guns, 6 × 36-pounder carronades;

Orient was an Océan-class 118-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, famous for her role as flagship of the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile in August 1798, and for her spectacular destruction that day when her magazine exploded. The event was commemorated by numerous poems and paintings.

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