Fougueux was a Téméraire-class 74-gun French ship of the line built at Lorient from 1784 to 1785 by engineer Segondat.

Fougueux's captain, Louis Alexis Baudoin, had suffered a fatal wound earlier in the fighting, leaving Commander François Bazin in charge.

On learning that nearly all of the officers were dead or wounded and that most of the guns were out of action, Bazin surrendered the ship to Kennedy.

[4][5] According to the report of Captain Lucas of the Redoutable, the Fougueux, which, having fought against several of the enemy's ships, had been left by them without having lowered her flag.

He was killed at the outset, and his second in command was wounded at the same moment; whereupon some men of the Temeraire sprang on board and took possession.On the day after the battle a severe storm battered the surviving ships.