French ship Orion (1813)

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Orion (1813), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name:	Orion
Namesake:	Orion.
Builder:	Brest
Laid down:	18 May 1810
Launched:	9 October 1813
Commissioned:	22 November 1813
Decommissioned:	1841
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 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: 6 × 8-pounder long guns 10 × 36-pounder carronades
Armour:	Timber

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

Orion was commissioned in 1814 under Captain Jean-Baptiste Billard.

In 1827, Orion was chosen as a school ship of the École navale. She was replaced by Borda in 1840, and struck in 1841.