French ship Thésée (1790)

	Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Thésée (1790), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name:	Thésée
Namesake:	Theseus
Ordered:	19 October 1787
Builder:	Rochefort
Laid down:	March 1788
Launched:	14 April 1790
In service:	August 1790
Out of service:	7 December 1804
Renamed:	Révolution on 7 January 1793; Finistère on 5 February 1803;
Fate:	Broken up in 1816
General characteristics
Class and type:	Téméraire class ship of the line
Displacement:	2966 tonnes; 5260 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 m2 (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 obusiers;
Armour:	Timber

The Thésée was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. As Révolution, she took part in the Expédition d'Irlande under Pierre Dumanoir le Pelley.

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