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This is a list of French ships of the line of the period 1621–1870 (plus some from the period before 1621). Battlefleet units in the French Navy (Marine Royale before the French Revolution established a republic) were categorised as vaisseaux (literally "vessels") as distinguished from lesser warships such as frigates (frégates).
A 1784 painting of French ship of the line Saint-Esprit by Nicholas Pocock. Two fleets in their line of battle during the Battle of Cuddalore. HMS Hercule as depicted in her fight against the frigate Poursuivante. A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century.
The Téméraire-class ships of the line were a class of a hundred and twenty 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 to a single ...
French ship. Orient. (1791) Battle of the Nile, August 1st 1798 at 10 pm, by Thomas Luny. Orient is depicted aflame at the centre left. Orient was a powerful Océan -class 118-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, famous for her role as flagship of the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile in August 1798, and for her spectacular destruction ...
The Océan-class ships of the line were a series of 118-gun three-decker ships of the line of the French Navy, designed by engineer Jacques-Noël Sané. Fifteen were completed from 1788 on, with the last one entering service in 1854; a sixteenth was never completed, and four more were never laid down. The first two of the series were Commerce ...
The "seventy-four" was a type of two- decked sailing ship of the line, which nominally carried 74 guns. It was developed by the French navy in the 1740s, replacing earlier classes of 60- and 62-gun ships, as a larger complement to the recently developed 64-gun ships. Impressed with the performance of several captured French seventy-fours, the ...
Ships in class include: Tonnant , Indomptable , Sans Pareil , Indivisible , Foudroyant , Formidable , Guillaume Tell , Franklin. The Tonnant class was a series of eight 80-gun ships of the line designed in 1787 by Jacques-Noël Sané, whose plans for the prototype were approved on 29 September 1787. With sixteen gunports on the lower deck on ...
Napoléon (1850), first purpose-built steam battleship in history. Sail and 2 cyl. Indret geared, 960 nhp (574 ihp) The Napoléon class was a late type of 90-gun ships of the line of the French Navy, and the first type of ship of the line designed from the start to incorporate a steam engine. Designed by Henri Dupuy de Lôme, the prototype ...