HMS Orion was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the British Royal Navy, launched at Deptford on 1 June 1787 to the design of the Canada class, by William Bately. She took part in all the major actions of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars under a series of distinguished captains.
Model of HMS Orion at the Vancouver Maritime Museum
The Glorious First of June, also known as the Fourth Battle of Ushant, was the first and largest fleet action of the naval conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the First French Republic during the French Revolutionary Wars.
Lord Howe's action, or the Glorious First of June, Philip James de Loutherbourg
Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe; 1794 painting by John Singleton Copley
Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse, 1839 painting by Guérin
HMS Defence at the Battle of the Glorious 1 June 1794, Nicholas Pocock