The French ship Triomphant was a 74-gun Téméraire-class ship of the line, constructed during the early 19th century for the French Navy. Laid down at the Arsenal de Rochefort on 27 June 1806 and launched on 31 March 1809, she was completed by May of that year and commissioned on 1 July 1809. Designed by Jacques-Noël Sané, the Triomphant exemplified the classic features of her class, measuring approximately 55.87 meters (183 feet 4 inches) in length, with a beam of 14.46 meters (47 feet 5 inches), and a depth of hold of 7.15 meters (23 feet 5 inches). She displaced around 3,069 tonneaux and had a tonnage of 1,537 port tonneaux, with a mean draught of 7.15 meters. Triomphant was rigged with three masts and ship rigging, typical of line-of-battle ships of her era. Her armament comprised a formidable array of muzzle-loading, smoothbore guns: twenty-eight 36-pounder long guns on the lower deck, thirty 18-pounder long guns on the upper deck, and a total of sixteen 8-pounder long guns on the quarterdeck and forecastle. Starting with ships completed after 1787, some modifications included the addition of four 36-pounder obusiers on the poop deck, although variations existed. Her service history was relatively modest, playing a minor role during the Napoleonic Wars. She was recommissioned at Rochefort in June 1810 with the crew of the Fourth Battalion of the Line and was decommissioned at Brest on 1 July 1814. Following her decommissioning, she was condemned on 1 July 1822, hulked as a storage vessel, and ultimately broken up in Brest between July and September 1825. Despite her limited active service, Triomphant is recognized as the canonical 74-gun ship of the line and is preserved as a model in the Trianon collection, highlighting her significance within naval history and ship design of her period.

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