French ship Polonais (1808)

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

First named Glorieux, she was renamed on 23 February 1807.

In 1809, under Captain Mequet, she departed Lorient with Troude's squadron, bound for the Caribbean. The squadron also comprised FRENCH SHIP Hautpoult and FRENCH SHIP Courageux. On 29 March, the ships arrived at the Saintes and landed reinforcements.

On 29 May, Polonais and Courageux reached Cherbourg, along with seven prizes captured on the way. Hautpoult had been captured in the Action of 14–17 April 1809.

In April 1814, at the Bourbon Restoration, she was renamed Lys; captained by Troude, she ferried Louis XVIII back to France. She was briefly renamed Polonais during the Hundred Days, and back to Lys again.

After the Bourbon Restoration, Lys was sent to retake possession of Martinique, along with the frigate FRENCH FRIGATE Érigone and the corvette FRENCH CORVETTE Vésuve. The squadron arrived at Fort Royal on 5 October 1814.

From 1822, she was used as a storing hulk, and she was broken up in Brest the 1825.