French ship Nestor (1810)

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

Career
Nestor was commissioned in 1810 and manned, upon direct orders from Napoleon, by crews from the 14th Battalion of the Fleet, taken from the frigates Renommée and FRENCH FRIGATE Clorinde.

On 2 December 1812, she accidentally collided with the corvette FRENCH CORVETTE Diligente in the Roads of Toulon.

Decommissioned at the Bourbon Restoration in 1814, on 3 March 1822 she was ordered to be razeed to a frigate, but the order was rescinded on 22 May.

Nestor was refitted in 1823. She was reactivated in 1830 and took part in the Invasion of Algiers.

Plans were drawn up in 1846-49 to convert her to steam. The order to do so was given on 24 April 1848, and she was to receive a 450bhp engine. However, a survey determined that Nestor was too rotted. Instead, on 29 August 1849 she was converted to a prison hulk. The engine that had been acquired for her went instead to the 90-gun FRENCH SHIP Charlemagne.

Nestor was broken up before 1865.