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Ship of the line of the French Navy For other ships with the same name, see French ship Lion and French ship Cassard.

History
Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Lion (1804), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
France
Name	Lion
Builder	Rochefort, Charente-Maritime
Laid down	30 June 1802
Launched	12 January 1804
Fate	Scuttled and burnt on 26 October 1809
General characteristics
Class and type	Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement	2,966 tonnes 5,260 tonnes fully loaded
Length	55.87 metres (183.3 ft) (172 pied)
Beam	14.90 metres (48 ft 11 in)
Draught	7.26 metres (23.8 ft) (22 pied)
Propulsion	Up to 2,485 m (26,750 sq ft) of sails
Armament	74 guns: Lower gundeck: 28 × 36-pounder long guns Upper gundeck: 30 × 18-pounder long guns Forecastle and Quarter deck: 16 × 8-pounder long guns 4 × 36-pounder carronades
Armour	Timber

Lion was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

She took part in Allemand's expedition of 1805 under Captain Eleonore-Jean-Nicolas Soleil.

On 21 October 1809, she departed Toulon escorting a convoy bound to Barcelona. Six days into the journey, she encountered a British squadron sent by Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, which gave chase. In the ensuing Battle of Maguelone, Lion ran aground near Sète, and was set on fire by her crew to avoid capture.

Citations

Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire – caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 23 March 2013.

References

Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.

v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1809
Shipwrecks	5 Jan: HMS Pigeon 9 Jan: HMS Morne Fortunee 11 Jan: HMS Magnet 14 Jan: Caroline 20 Jan: HMS Claudia 22 Jan: HMS Primrose 25 Jan: Admiral Gardner, Britannia January (unknown date): HMS Constant, HMS Piercer 3 Feb: Amphitrite 24 Feb: Calypso, Cybèle, Italienne 26 Feb: Jean Bart February (unknown date): Maria 14 Mar: HMS Harrier 15 Mar: Bengal, Calcutta, Jane, Duchess of Gordon, Lady Jane Dundas 16 Mar: Argument March (unknown date): Harrington, Hazard 1 Apr: Lord Melville 12 Apr: Aquilon, Calcutta, HMS Mediator, Régulus, Tonnerre 13 Apr: Ville de Varsovie 29 Apr: HMS Alcmene 1 Jun: Asia 16 Jun: HMS Agamemnon 18 Jun: HMS Sealark June (unknown date): Arran July (unknown date): Brunswick 3 Aug: HMS Lark 27 Aug: Bellona 31 Aug: HMS Foxhound August (unknown date): HMS Dominica, HMS Pike 13 Sep: Shah Ardaseer 22 Sep: HMS Curieux 26 Oct: Lion, Robuste 17 Nov: HMS Patriot 7 Dec: HM Hired armed ship Harlequin 14 Dec: HMS Defender, HMS Junon 23 Dec: HMS Salorman 28 Dec: John December (unknown date): Boyd Unknown date: Pandour, True Briton
Other incidents	23 Nov: Princess of Wales December (unknown date): Boyd massacre Unknown date: Loyalist
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