Téméraire-class ship of the line

The Téméraire class ships of the line was a class of 120 74-gun ships of the line ordered between 1782 and 1813 for the French navy or its attached navies in dependent (French-occupied) territories. Although a few of these were cancelled, the type was and remains the most numerous class of capital ship ever built.

The class was designed by Jacques-Noël Sané as part of the fleet expansion programme instituted by Jean-Charles de Borda.

The design was appreciated in Britain, which eagerly commissioned captured ships and even copied the design with the and.

Variants from basic design
While all the French 74-gun ships from the mid-1780s until the close of the Napoleonic Wars were to the Téméraire design, there were three variants of the basic design which Sané developed with the same hull form of the Téméraire. In 1793 two ships were laid down at Brest to an enlarged design; in 1801 two ships were commenced at Lorient with a shorter length than the standard design (with a third ship commenced at Brest); and in 1803 two ships were commenced at Toulon to a smaller version (many more ships to this 'small(er) model' were then built in the shipyards controlled by France in Italy and the Netherlands) - these are detailed separately below.

Téméraire Group (18 ships)

 * FRENCH SHIP Téméraire
 * Builder: Brest shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Laid down: May 1782
 * Launched: 17 December 1782
 * Completed: July 1783
 * Fate: Condemned, November 1801. Broken up, 1803.


 * FRENCH SHIP Audacieux
 * Builder: Lorient shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Laid down: July 1782
 * Launched: 28 October 1784
 * Completed: 1785
 * Fate: Condemned, November 1802. Broken up, 1803.


 * FRENCH SHIP Superbe
 * Builder: Brest shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Laid down: July 1782
 * Launched: 11 November 1784
 * Completed: 1785
 * Fate: Wrecked off Brest, 30 January 1795.


 * FRENCH SHIP Généreux
 * Builder: Rochefort shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Laid down: July 1782
 * Launched: 21 June 1785
 * Completed: October 1785
 * Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy at Toulon in August 1793, but retaken by the French in December 1793; captured again by the Royal Navy in February 1800 and served as HMS Généreux. Broken up in 1816.


 * FRENCH SHIP Commerce de Bordeaux, renamed Bonnet Rouge in January 1794 and then Timoléon in February 1794.
 * Builder: Toulon shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Laid down: September 1784
 * Launched: 15 September 1785
 * Completed: 1786 or 1787
 * Fate: Destroyed in action at the Battle of the Nile, August 1798.


 * FRENCH SHIP Ferme, renamed Phocion in October 1792.
 * Builder: Brest shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Laid down: December 1784
 * Launched: 16 September 1785
 * Completed: 1786
 * Fate: Surrendered to Spain by her officers at Trinidad in January 1793.


 * FRENCH SHIP Fougueux
 * Builder: Lorient shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Laid down: August 1782, but work stopped in February 1783 and she was demolished.
 * Re-laid down: November 1784
 * Launched: 19 September 1785
 * Completed: late 1785
 * Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy at Trafalgar on 21 October 1805, and subsequently wrecked.


 * FRENCH SHIP Patriote
 * Builder: Brest shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Laid down: September 1784
 * Launched: 3 October 1785
 * Completed: April 1786
 * Fate: Condemned in May 1820 and became Pontoon No.4 in April 1821. Broken up at Rochefort in late 1832.


 * FRENCH SHIP Commerce de Marseille, renamed Lys in July 1786 and then Tricolore in October 1792.
 * Builder: Toulon shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Laid down: September 1784
 * Launched: 7 October 1785
 * Completed: September 1787
 * Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy at Toulon on August 1793, then destroyed during the Siege of Toulon in December 1793.


 * FRENCH SHIP Borée, renamed Ça Ira in April 1794 and then Agricola in June 1794.
 * Builder: Lorient shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Laid down: January 1783, but work stopped in February 1783 and she was demolished.
 * Re-laid down: November 1784
 * Launched: 17 November 1785
 * Completed: August 1787
 * Fate: Broken up at Rochefort, 1803.


 * FRENCH SHIP Orion, renamed Mucius Scaevola in November 1793, then Mucius in same month.
 * Builder: Rochefort shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Laid down: October 1784
 * Launched: 18 April 1787
 * Completed: 1788
 * Fate: Condemned 1802, and broken up 1803-04.


 * FRENCH SHIP Léopard
 * Builder: Brest shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Begun: October 1785
 * Launched: 22 June 1787
 * Completed: July 1787
 * Fate: Wrecked and then burnt, February 1793.


 * FRENCH SHIP Entreprenant
 * Builder: Lorient shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Begun: May 1786
 * Launched: 11 October 1787
 * Completed: 1788
 * Fate: Broken up, 1803.


 * FRENCH SHIP Impétueux
 * Builder: Rochefort shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Begun: July 1786
 * Launched: 25 October 1787
 * Completed: 1788
 * Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy, 1 June 1794. Accidentally destroyed by fire, 24 August 1794.


 * FRENCH SHIP Apollon, renamed Gasparin in February 1794, reverted to Apollon in May 1794; renamed Marceau in December 1797.
 * Builder: Rochefort shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Begun: April 1787
 * Launched: 21 May 1788
 * Completed: 1788
 * Fate: Broken up, 1798.


 * FRENCH SHIP América
 * Builder: Brest shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Begun: end 1786
 * Launched: 21 May 1788
 * Completed: 1789
 * Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy, 1 June 1794, and served as HMS Impétueux. Broken up, 1813.


 * FRENCH SHIP Duguay-Trouin
 * Builder: Brest shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Begun: End 1786
 * Launched: 30 October 1788
 * Completed: July 1790
 * Fate: Destroyed during the Siege of Toulon, December 1793.


 * FRENCH SHIP Aquilon
 * Builder: Rochefort shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Begun: September 1787
 * Launched: 8 June 1789
 * Completed: June 1790
 * Fate: Captured by Britain during the Battle of the Nile on 2 August 1798. Served as HMS Aboukir until broken up in Plymouth in 1802.

Duquesne Group (46 ships)

 * FRENCH SHIP Duquesne
 * Builder: Toulon shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Begun: August 1787
 * Launched: 2 September 1788
 * Completed: 1789
 * Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy on 24 July 1803, and served as HMS Duquesne. Broken up in 1805.


 * FRENCH SHIP Tourville
 * Builder: Lorient shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Begun: June 1787
 * Launched: 16 December 1788
 * Completed: July 1790
 * Decommissioned: 26 October 1833
 * Fate: Broken up at Brest, 1841.


 * FRENCH SHIP Éole
 * Builder: Lorient shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Begun: June 1787
 * Launched: 15 November 1789
 * Completed: August 1790
 * Fate: Broken up in Baltimore, 1816.


 * FRENCH SHIP Jupiter, renamed Montagnard in March 1794, Démocrate on 18 May 1795, then back to Jupiter again on 30 May 1795, and to Batave in December 1797.
 * Builder: Brest shipyard
 * Ordered: 19 August 1787
 * Begun: June 1788
 * Launched: 4 November 1789
 * Completed: October 1790
 * Fate: Broken up in Brest, 1807.


 * FRENCH SHIP Vengeur
 * Builder: Brest shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Begun: 23 May 1788
 * Launched: 16 December 1789
 * Completed: August 1790
 * Fate: Ran aground, 12 December 1792. Abandoned, and finally sank, 8 June 1793.


 * FRENCH SHIP Jean Bart
 * Builder: Lorient shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 7 November 1790
 * Fate: Wrecked at the Battle of the Basque Roads on 26 February 1809, hull burnt by the British in April.


 * FRENCH SHIP Scipion
 * Builder: Toulon shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 30 July 1790
 * Fate: Captured by the British at Toulon in August 1793 and burnt by them there in December 1793.


 * FRENCH SHIP Thésée, renamed Révolution on 7 January 1793, then Finisterre on 5 February 1803.
 * Builder: Rochefort shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 14 April 1790
 * Fate: Broken up, 1816.


 * FRENCH SHIP Pyrrhus, renamed Mont-Blanc in 1793, and Trente-et-un Mai in 1794. Renamed Républicain in 1795, then Mont-Blanc again in 1796.
 * Builder: Rochefort shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Launched:
 * Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy during the Battle of Cape Ortegal, 4 November 1805. Served as HMS Mont Blanc. Used as a gunpowder hulk from 1811, and sold in 1819.


 * FRENCH SHIP Suffren, renamed Redoutable, May 1794.
 * Builder: Brest shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 31 May 1791
 * Fate: Participated in the Battle of Trafalgar, taken by the British, foundered two days later, 22 October 1805.


 * FRENCH SHIP Thémistocle
 * Builder: Lorient shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 1791
 * Fate: Burnt by the Royal Navy at the Siege of Toulon, 18 December 1793.


 * FRENCH SHIP Trajan, renamed Gaulois.
 * Builder: Lorient shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 24 January 1792
 * Fate: Decommissioned, June 1802. Broken up, 1805.


 * FRENCH SHIP Nestor, renamed Cisalpin in 1797, and Aquilon in 1803.
 * Builder: Brest
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 1794
 * Fate: Grounded and burnt at the Battle of the Basque Roads, April 1809


 * FRENCH SHIP Pompée
 * Builder: Toulon shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Launched:28 May 1791
 * Fate: Captured at Toulon by the Royal Navy, 29 August 1793. Served as HMS Pompee. Converted to prison hulk at Portsmouth, 1816. Broken up, January 1817.


 * FRENCH SHIP Tigre
 * Builder: Brest
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 8 May 1793
 * Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy during the Battle of Groix, 23 June 1795. Served as HMS Tigre. Broken up, June 1817.


 * FRENCH SHIP Tyrannicide, renamed Desaix in August 1800.
 * Builder: Lorient
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 1793
 * Fate: Wrecked at Saint-Domingue, January 1802.


 * FRENCH SHIP Barra, renamed Pégase in 1795, and Hoche in 1797.
 * Builder:
 * Ordered:
 * Launched:
 * Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy on 12 October 1798. Served as HMS Donegal. Broken up, 1845.


 * FRENCH SHIP Droits de l'Homme
 * Builder: Lorient shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 29 May 1794
 * Fate: Driven ashore by HMS Amazon and Indefatigable and wrecked on 14 January 1797.


 * FRENCH SHIP Jemmapes
 * Builder: Rochefort
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 22 January 1794
 * Fate: Decommissioned, May 1820.


 * FRENCH SHIP Lion, renamed Marat in 1794, Formidable in May 1795.
 * Builder: Rochefort shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 29 April 1794
 * Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy at the Battle of Groix, 23 June 1795, served as HMS Belleisle (1795). Broken up in 1814.


 * FRENCH SHIP Wattignies
 * Builder: Lorient
 * Ordered: 3 July 1793
 * Launched: 1794
 * Fate: Scrapped, 1808.


 * FRENCH SHIP Cassard, renamed Dix-août in 1798, Brave in February 1803.
 * Builder: Lorient
 * Ordered: 16 February 1793
 * Launched: 2 May 1795
 * Fate: Captured by HMS Donegal (1798) during the Battle of San Domingo, 6 February 1806. Foundered, 12 April 1806.


 * FRENCH SHIP Jean-Jacques Rousseau, renamed Marengo on 2 December 1802.
 * Builder: Toulon
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 21 July 1795
 * Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy in the Action of 13 March 1806, and served as HMS Marengo until broken up 1816.


 * FRENCH SHIP Viala, renamed Voltaire in 1795, Constitution in 1795, and Jupiter in 1803.
 * Builder: Lorient
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 1795
 * Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy during the Battle of San Domingo, 6 February 1806, and served as HMS Maida. Sold for breaking up, 1814.


 * FRENCH SHIP Hercule
 * Builder: Lorient
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 5 December 1797
 * Fate: Captured by HMS Mars (1794) during the Battle of the Raz de Sein on 21 April 1798, and served as HMS Hercules. Broken up in December 1810.


 * FRENCH SHIP Spartiate
 * Builder: Toulon
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 1797
 * Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy during the Battle of the Nile, 2 August 1798. Served as HMS Spartiate. Broken up, 1857.


 * FRENCH SHIP Argonaute
 * Builder: Lorient
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 22 December 1798
 * Fate: Exchanged with Spain, 1806.


 * FRENCH SHIP Quatorze Juillet
 * Builder: Lorient
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 1 February 1798
 * Fate: Destroyed by accidental fire before being commissioned.


 * FRENCH SHIP Brutus, renamed Impétueux in February 1803.
 * Builder: Lorient
 * Ordered: 31 May 1798
 * Begun: August 1798
 * Launched: 24 January 1803
 * Completed: March 1803
 * Fate: Beached and set ablaze by the British in the Chesapeake, 14 September 1806.


 * FRENCH SHIP Union, renamed Diomède in 1803.
 * Builder: Lorient
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 1799
 * Fate: Ran aground and wrecked during the Battle of San Domingo, 6 February 1806. Burnt by the Royal Navy, 8 February 1806.


 * FRENCH SHIP Aigle
 * Builder: Rochefort
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 1800
 * Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy at Trafalgar on 21 October 1805. Retaken by her crew on 22 October 1805, but sank in a heavy storm the next day.


 * FRENCH SHIP Duguay-Trouin (ii)
 * Builder: Rochefort
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 24 March 1800
 * Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy in the Battle of Cape Ortegal, 4 November 1805, and served as HMS Implacable. Renamed HMS Foudroyant, 1943. Scuttled, 2 December 1949.


 * FRENCH SHIP Héros
 * Builder: Rochefort
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 1801
 * Fate: Captured by Spain at Cadiz, June 1808.


 * FRENCH SHIP Scipion (ii)
 * Builder: Lorient
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 1798
 * Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy at the Battle of Cape Ortegal, 4 November 1805. Served as HMS Scipion until broken up in January 1819.


 * FRENCH SHIP Magnanime
 * Builder: Rochefort
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 18 August 1803
 * Fate: Decommissioned, 1816.


 * FRENCH SHIP Achille
 * Builder: Rochefort
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: November 1804
 * Fate: Sunk at the battle of Trafalgar, 22 October 1805.


 * FRENCH SHIP Lion
 * Builder: Rochefort
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 12 January 1804
 * Fate: Ran aground and burnt, 26 October 1809.


 * FRENCH SHIP Régulus
 * Builder: Lorient
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 12 April 1805
 * Fate: Burnt by crew to avoid capture, 7 April 1814.


 * FRENCH SHIP Ajax
 * Builder: Rochefort
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 17 June 1806
 * Fate: Decommissioned, 1816.


 * FRENCH SHIP Courageux
 * Builder: Lorient
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 3 February 1806
 * Fate: Broken up, 1831.


 * FRENCH SHIP Hautpoult
 * Builder: Lorient
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 2 September 1807
 * Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy on 17 April 1809 during Troude's expedition to the Caribbean. Served as HMS Abercrombie. Sold, 1817.


 * FRENCH SHIP Inflexible
 * Builder:
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: ?
 * Fate: ?


 * FRENCH SHIP Triomphant
 * Builder: Rochefort
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 1809
 * Fate: Hulked, 1828.

Danube Group (26 ships)

 * FRENCH SHIP Polonais, renamed Lys in April 1814, reverted to Polonais from March until July 1815, then Lys again.
 * Builder: Lorient
 * Ordered:
 * Begun: August 1805
 * Launched: 25 May 1808
 * Completed: October 1808
 * Fate: Broken up at Brest, 1825.


 * FRENCH SHIP Tonnerre, renamed, Quatorze Juillet in 1795, but launched under her original name.
 * Builder: Brest
 * Ordered:
 * Begun: 16 April 1794
 * Launched: 9 June 1808
 * Completed: September 1808
 * Fate: Wrecked during the Battle of the Basque Roads on 12 April 1809, and burned by her crew to avoid capture.


 * FRENCH SHIP Triomphant
 * Builder: Rochefort
 * Ordered:
 * Launched:1809
 * Fate: Converted to a pontoon, 1828.


 * FRENCH SHIP Danube
 * Builder: Toulon
 * Ordered:
 * Begun: June 1807
 * Launched: 27 December 1808
 * Completed: August 1809
 * Fate: Converted to a pontoon, 1828.


 * FRENCH SHIP Ulm
 * Builder: Rochefort
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 25 May 1809
 * Fate: Converted to a pontoon, 1822.


 * FRENCH SHIP Golymin
 * Builder: Lorient
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 8 December 1809
 * Fate: Wrecked off Brest, 23 March 1814.


 * FRENCH SHIP Nestor (ii)
 * Builder: Brest
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 1810
 * Fate: Struck, 1849


 * FRENCH SHIP Marengo, renamed Pluton in 1866.
 * Builder: Lorient
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 12 October 1810
 * Fate: Struck, 21 July 1858. Prison hulk from 1860 to 1865. Broken up in 1873.


 * FRENCH SHIP Trident
 * Builder: Toulon
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 9 June 1811
 * Fate: Struck, 24 November 1857. Used as a barracks hulk from 1857 to 1869. Broken up in 1879.


 * FRENCH SHIP Trajan
 * Builder: Antwerp
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 1811
 * Fate: Struck, 1826.


 * FRENCH SHIP Agamemnon, razeed and renamed Amphitrite in 1823.
 * Builder: Genoa
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 1812
 * Fate: Converted to a pontoon, 1836.


 * FRENCH SHIP Gaulois
 * Builder: Antwerp
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 1812
 * Fate: Converted to a pontoon, 1826. Broken up, 1831.


 * FRENCH SHIP Romulus, razeed and renamed Guerrière in 1821.
 * Builder: Toulon
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 1812
 * Fate: Broken up, 1840.


 * FRENCH SHIP Ville de Marseille
 * Builder: Toulon
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 15 August 1812
 * Fate: Struck, 22 June 1858, and used as a barracks hulk. Broken up in Toulon, 1877.


 * FRENCH SHIP Scipion (ii)
 * Builder: Genoa
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 1813
 * Fate: Struck, 1846.


 * FRENCH SHIP Orion (ii)
 * Builder: Brest
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 1813
 * Fate: Scrapped, 1841.


 * FRENCH SHIP Duguay-Trouin (ii)
 * Builder: Cherbourg
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 1813
 * Fate: Struck, and used as a floating magazine from 1824.


 * FRENCH SHIP Colosse, razeed and renamed Pallas in 1821.
 * Builder: Toulon
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 5 December 1812
 * Fate: Struck, 1831. Broken up, 1840.


 * FRENCH SHIP Superbe (ii)
 * Builder: Antwerp
 * Ordered:
 * Begun: December 1808
 * Launched: 5 July 1814
 * Completed: September 1814
 * Fate: Lost, 1833.


 * FRENCH SHIP Brillant
 * Builder: Genoa
 * Ordered:
 * Begun: February 1812. Captured by the British, 18 April 1814.
 * Launched: 18 April 1815 for the British Navy as HMS Genoa
 * Completed: 1815
 * Fate: Broken up at Plymouth, 1838.


 * FRENCH SHIP Hercule (ii), renamed Provence in July 1815, then Alger in July 1830.
 * Builder: Toulon
 * Ordered:
 * Begun: September 1812
 * Launched: 26 May 1815
 * Completed: August 1815
 * Fate: Struck, 31 December 1855, and used as a hospital ship. Broken up, 1881.


 * FRENCH SHIP Duc de Berry, renamed Glorieux before launch, Minerve in 1834, Aber Wrac'h in 1865.
 * Builder: Rochefort
 * Ordered:
 * Begun: January 1812
 * Launched: 18 June 1818
 * Completed: July 1818
 * Fate: Razeed to 58-gun frigate during 1831-34. Struck, and converted to a pontoon, 1853. Broken up, 1874.


 * FRENCH SHIP Jean Bart (ii)
 * Builder: Lorient-Caudan
 * Ordered:
 * Begun: July 1811
 * Launched: 25 August 1820
 * Completed: December 1820
 * Fate: Broken up, 1833


 * FRENCH SHIP Triton
 * Builder: Rochefort
 * Ordered:
 * Begun: April 1813
 * Launched: 22 September 1823
 * Completed: December 1824
 * Fate: Converted to a pontoon, 1852. Broken up, 1870.


 * FRENCH SHIP Couronne (ii), renamed Duperré in December 1849.
 * Builder: Brest
 * Ordered:
 * Begun: October 1813
 * Launched: 26 August 1824
 * Completed: 1825
 * Fate: Broken up, 1870.


 * FRENCH SHIP Généreux (ii)
 * Builder: Cherbourg
 * Ordered:
 * Begun: July 1813
 * Launched: 23 September 1831
 * Completed: 1832
 * Fate: Broken up, 1865.

Three further ships to this design were begun at Castellammare di Stabia for the "puppet" Neapolitan Navy of Joachim Murat:


 * NEAPOLITAN SHIP Capri
 * Begun: end 1808
 * Launched: 21 August 1810
 * Completed: January 1812
 * Fate: Out of service 1847, and broken up.


 * NEAPOLITAN SHIP Gioacchino
 * Begun: September 1810
 * Launched: 1 August 1812
 * Completed: May 1813
 * Fate: Damaged by fire, 10 May 1820. Sold for breaking up, 1821.


 * The third ship, laid down in September 1812, was never named, let alone launched, as its construction was abandoned following the defection of the Kingdom of Naples from the Napoleonic cause in November 1813.

Large Variant (Cassard group - 2 ships launched)
Two ships were laid down in 1793-94 at Brest to a variant of Sané's design with the aim of carrying 24-pounder guns on the upper deck instead of the 18-pounders carried by the Téméraire. These ships were 2 feet longer than the standard 74s, and half a foot wider. The first was begun as the Lion, but was renamed Glorieux in 1795 and Cassard in 1798. The second was begun as the Magnanime, but was renamed Quatorze Juillet in 1798 and Vétéran in 1802. Unlike the main sequence, construction proceeded slowly. By 1816 the 24-pounders aboard these two ships had been replaced by 18-pounders, and no further ships to this variant design were produced, so indicating that it was not judged successful.


 * FRENCH SHIP Vétéran
 * Builder: Brest shipyard
 * Begun: November 1794
 * Launched: 18 July 1803
 * Completed: December 1803
 * Fate: Condemned, 1833.


 * FRENCH SHIP Cassard
 * Builder: Brest shipyard
 * Begun: August 1793
 * Launched: 24 September 1803
 * Completed: December 1803
 * Fate: Condemned, 1818.

Short Variant (Suffren group - 2 ships launched)
Two ships were begun in 1801 to a variation of the standard Téméraire design by Sané to meet the demands of Pierre-Alexandre Forfait. The length of these ships were reduced by 65 cm from the standard design. A third ship to this variant design begun at Brest was cancelled in 1804. After Forfait left the Ministry of the Marine in October 1801, no further vessels were ordered to this variant design.


 * FRENCH SHIP Suffren
 * Builder: Lorient shipyard
 * Begun: August 1801
 * Launched: 17 September 1803
 * Completed: October 1803
 * Fate: Condemned, 1815.


 * FRENCH SHIP Algésiras
 * Builder: Lorient shipyard
 * Begun: August 1801
 * Launched: 8 July 1804
 * Completed: September 1804
 * Fate: Captured by the British at Trafalgar in 1805, but retaken. Captured by Spain at Cadiz, June 1808.


 * FRENCH SHIP Pacificateur
 * Builder: Brest shipyard
 * Begun: May 1801
 * Launched: Never launched
 * Completed: -
 * Fate: Cancelled, February 1804.

Small Variant (Pluton group - 24 ships launched)
Starting with the prototypes Pluton and Borée in 1803, a smaller version of the Téméraire class, officially named petit modèle, was designed by Jacques-Noël Sané to be produced in shipyards having a lesser depth of water than the principal French shipyards, primarily those in neighbouring states under French control and in foreign ports which had been absorbed into the French Empire such as Antwerp. The revised design measured 177 feet 7 inches on the waterline, 180 feet 1 inch on the deck, and 46 feet 11 inches moulded breadth. The depth of hull was 9 inches less than that in the "regular" Téméraire design.


 * FRENCH SHIP Pluton
 * Builder: Toulon shipyard
 * Ordered: June 1803
 * Laid down: August 1803
 * Launched: 17 January 1805
 * Completed: March 1805.
 * Fate: Captured by the Spanish at Cadiz in June 1808.


 * FRENCH SHIP Borée
 * Builder: Toulon shipyard
 * Ordered: June 1803
 * Laid down: August 1803
 * Launched: 27 June 1805
 * Completed: August 1805
 * Fate: Condemned at Toulon in 1827.


 * Two more 74s to the "petit modèle" design were ordered in June 1803, one at Marseille and the other at Bordeaux, but these were not built.


 * FRENCH SHIP Génois
 * Builder: Genoa shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Laid down: July 1803
 * Launched: 17 August 1805
 * Completed: November 1805
 * Fate: Condemned at Rochefort in August 1821, and broken up there by October 1821.


 * FRENCH SHIP Royal Hollandais
 * Builder: Flushing shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Launched:
 * Fate: Captured on the stocks after the fall of Flushing during the Walcheren Campaign in 1809. Frames taken to England, where she was assembled and launched as HMS Chatham (1812) in 1812.


 * FRENCH SHIP Commerce de Lyon
 * Builder: Antwerp shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Laid down: November 1803
 * Launched: 9 April 1807
 * Completed: March 1808
 * Fate: Condemned at Brest in February 1819, and broken up there in December 1819.


 * FRENCH SHIP Charlemagne
 * Builder: Antwerp shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Laid down: April 1804
 * Launched: 8 April 1807
 * Completed: March 1808
 * Fate: Ceded to the new Dutch Navy, 1 August 1814, renamed Nassau.


 * FRENCH SHIP Anversois, renamed Éole in August 1814, then Anversois in March 1815 and back to Éole in July 1815.
 * Builder: Antwerp shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Laid down: June 1804
 * Launched: 7 June 1807
 * Completed: March 1808
 * Fate: Condemned at Brest in February 1819 and broken up there in December 1819.


 * FRENCH SHIP Duguesclin
 * Builder: Antwerp shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Laid down: July 1804
 * Launched: 20 June 1807
 * Completed: March 1808
 * Fate: Condemned at Lorient in June 1818, and broken up there in January 1820.


 * FRENCH SHIP César
 * Builder: Antwerp shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 1807
 * Fate:


 * FRENCH SHIP Ville de Berlin, renamed Thésée before launch, renamed Atlas after 1814.
 * Builder: Antwerp shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 1807
 * Fate: Condemned 1819, hulked.


 * FRENCH SHIP Pultusk, renamed Audacieux before launch.
 * Builder: Antwerp shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 1807
 * Fate:


 * FRENCH SHIP Dantzig, named Illustre before launching, and renamed Achille in 1814 during the First Restoration. In 1815, during the Hundred Days, reverted to Dantzig, but returned to Achille on the Second Restoration.
 * Builder: Antwerp shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 1807
 * Fate: Struck, 1815.


 * FRENCH SHIP Albanais
 * Builder: Antwerp shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Begun: April 1807
 * Launched: 2 October 1808
 * Completed: April 1809
 * Fate: Struck, 1814.


 * FRENCH SHIP Breslau, renamed Superbe before launching
 * Builder: Genoa shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 1808
 * Fate: Struck, 1836.


 * FRENCH SHIP Dalmate, renamed Hector in 1814 during the First Restoration. In 1815, during the Hundred Days, reverted to Dalmate, but returned to Hector on the Second Restoration.
 * Builder: Antwerp shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Begun: August 1806
 * Launched: 21 August 1808
 * Completed: April 1809
 * Fate: Struck, 1819.


 * FRENCH SHIP Rivoli
 * Builder: Venice shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 6 September 1810
 * Fate: Captured by HMS Victorious (1808) in the Action of 22 February 1812. Served as HMS Rivoli until broken up in 1819.


 * FRENCH SHIP Montebello
 * Builder: Venice shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: not launched
 * Fate:


 * FRENCH SHIP Mont Saint-Bernard
 * Builder: Venice shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 1811
 * Fate: Struck, 1814.


 * FRENCH SHIP Régénérateur
 * Builder: Venice shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 1811
 * Fate: Struck, 1814.


 * FRENCH SHIP Audacieux
 * Builder: Amsterdam shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 1815
 * Fate: Abandoned in 1813, completed by the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.


 * FRENCH SHIP Castiglione
 * Builder: Venice shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 1812
 * Fate: Struck, 1814.


 * FRENCH SHIP Polyphème
 * Builder: Amsterdam shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: July 1817
 * Fate: Abandoned in 1813, completed by the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.


 * FRENCH SHIP Royal Italien
 * Builder: Venice shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 1812
 * Fate: Struck, 1814.


 * FRENCH SHIP Couronne
 * Builder: Amsterdam shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 1817
 * Fate: Abandoned in 1813, completed by the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.


 * FRENCH SHIP Piet Hein
 * Builder: Rotterdam shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 1817
 * Fate: Abandoned in 1813, completed by the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.


 * Montenotte
 * Builder: Venice shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: 1815
 * Fate: Completed by Lombardy–Venetia.


 * Arcole
 * Builder: Venice shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: not launched
 * Fate: Cancelled.


 * Lombardo
 * Builder: Venice shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: not launched
 * Fate: Cancelled.


 * Semmering
 * Builder: Venice shipyard
 * Ordered:
 * Launched: not launched
 * Fate: Cancelled.


 * Citoyen
 * Builder: Trieste shipyard
 * Ordered: December 1811
 * Launched: not launched
 * Fate: Cancelled, 1812.