Name Apollon Commissioned 1788 Construction started April 1787 Length 56 m Beam 15 m | Laid down April 1787 Decommissioned 1797 Launched 21 May 1788 Weight 1,966 tons Builder Rochefort | |
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Namesake Apollo, Gasparinus de Bergamo, François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers Renamed Gasparin in February 1794
Apollon on 16 May 1795
Marceau on 6 June 1798 | ||
Apollon was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
Between 1791 and 1793, she was based in Saint-Domingue.
During the Siege of Toulon, her commanding officer, Captain Imbert, negotiated the surrender of the town with Admiral Hood aboard HMS Victory. After the siege, she ferried 1,500 anti-revolutionary prisoners to Rochefort, where most of them were executed.
She took part in the battle of the Glorious First of June, and the Croisière du Grand Hiver ("Campaign of the Great Winter") in 1794–1795.
She was eventually broken up in 1798.
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