Mathurin François Boucher (Nantes, 22 November 1778 – Marseille, 31 March 1851)[1] was a French naval engineer.

He is notable for his adaptation of the technique of ship camel to large 74-guns, and for designing the Surveillante class of 60-gun frigates.

Graduating three years later, he briefly joined the Geography corps, but soon transferred to Naval engineering.

On 20 February 1812, he successfully applied it on the 74-gun ship Rivoli, built in Venice to a draft exceeding that allowed by the pass of Malamocco.

Surveillante was kept at sea from 1825 to 1830 with such performances that France started building further frigates and ships of the line after her design.