Name Trajan Ordered 19 October 1787 Commissioned November 1792 Construction started 17 May 1790 Length 56 m Beam 15 m | Namesake Trajan Laid down 17 May 1790 Decommissioned June 1802 Launched 24 January 1792 Weight 2,966 tons Builder Lorient | |
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The Trajan was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
In 1793, Trajan was commissioned in Lorient, under captain Villaret de Joyeuse.
At the Bataille du 13 prairial an 2, along with Éole, she engaged and dismasted HMS Bellerophon.
In 1797, she took part in the Expédition d'Irlande, an ill-fated attempt to invade Ireland. On 17 December 1797, she was renamed Gaulois.
She was eventually broken up in 1805.
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