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French ship Wattignies (1794)

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Ordered
  
3 July 1793

Struck
  
5 September 1808

Weight
  
2,966 tons

Builder
  
Lorient shipyard

Launched
  
1794

French ship Wattignies (1794)

Namesake
  
Battle of Wattignies (1793)

Fate
  
Scrapped on 21 September 1808

Class and type
  
Téméraire class ship of the line

The Wattignies was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

She took part in the Expédition d'Irlande in 1798 under captain Antoine René Thévenard.

In July 1808, she was converted to a fluyt.

References

French ship Wattignies (1794) Wikipedia