French ship Orion (1787)

	Tourville (left) raking HMS Defence (centre) at the Battle of Prairial, while Mucius Scævola (ex-Orion, right) duels with her on her port side. Painting by Nicholas Pocock
History
France
Name	Orion
Namesake	Orion; Gaius Mucius Scævola;
Builder	Rochefort
Laid down	October 1784
Launched	18 April 1787
Completed	1788
Stricken	23 March 1804
Fate	Broken up in 1804
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

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

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