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French ship <i>Orion</i> (1787)

French ship Orion (1787)

Ship of the line of the French Navy

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Orion.

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

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Career

In 1790, Orion was under Buor de La Charoulière.[2]

She took part in fighting on the coast of Italy. In 1793, she was renamed Mucius Scævola, soon shortened to Mucius.[3]

In 1794 she took part in the battle of the Glorious First of June (Combat du 13 prairial an II), helping the Impétueux battling HMS Marlborough, as well as in both the First Battle of Groix and the Battle of Groix in June 1795.[3]

In December 1796 she took part in the Expédition d'Irlande, an attempt at landing an army in Ireland, before being struck and broken up in Brest.[3]

Citations

  1. [1]
    Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
  2. [2]
    Taillemite (1982), p. 51.
  3. [3]
    Roche, p.336

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