French ship Mont Blanc (1793)
Mont Blanc was a Téméraire class 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the French Navy. In the course of her career, she was renamed no less than four times, reflecting the tides of politics with the French Revolution.
The Mont Blanc off Marseille (detail of this image), by Antoine Roux.
Téméraire-class ship of the line
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 design.
Scale model of Achille, a typical French seventy-four of the Téméraire class at the beginning of the 19th century.
Fight of the Poursuivante against the British ship HMS Hercules, 28 June 1803
Stern of a model of the Triomphant
Battle between the French warship Droits de l'Homme and the British frigates Amazon (right) and Indefatigable (left), 13 & 14 January 1797.