Career	-
Built	Toulon, 1794-1797
Fate	Scraped, 1887
General Characteristics
Displacement:	2016 tonnes
Length:	56 m
Width:	14 m
Beam:	7 m
Draught:
Class:	third rate
Speed:
Complement:
Armament:	80 guns: 30 x 36 pdr (16 kg) 32 x 24 pdr (11 kg) 18 x 12 pdr (5 kg) 6 x 36 pdr (16 kg) carronades

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She was captured by the fleet of counter-Admiral Nelson at the Battle of the Nile, and commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Canopus. Lord Nelson Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (September 29, 1758 РOctober 21, 1805) was a British admiral who won fame as a leading naval commander. ... The Battle of the Nile, also known as the Battle of Aboukir Bay, was an important naval battle of the French Revolutionary Wars between a British fleet commanded by Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson and a French fleet under Vice-Admiral Fran̤ois-Paul Brueys DAigalliers. ... The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the senior service of the British armed services, being the oldest of its three branches. ...

From 1863, she was used for harbour duty, and she was sold for scrap in October 1887.