Téméraire was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, ordered in December 1747 to a design by François Coulomb, and built at Toulon by his cousin, the constructor Pierre-Blaise Coulomb; she was launched on 24 December 1749.

HMS Warspite under Admiral Boscawen captured Téméraire at the Battle of Lagos on 18 August 1759.

She was thus taken into the Royal Navy and recommissioned as the Third Rate HMS Temeraire.

[1] By 1780 she was used as a floating battery used to protect the harbour at Plymouth.

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