French ship Orion (1813)

	Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Orion (1813), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name	Orion
Namesake	Orion.
Builder	Brest
Laid down	18 May 1810
Launched	9 October 1813
Commissioned	22 November 1813
Decommissioned	1841
Fate	Broken up 1841
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

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

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