French_ship_Aquilon_(1789)

French ship Aquilon (1789)

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

She served off Italy under Brueys, and took part in the Battle of the Nile, where she fought HMS Vanguard, HMS Minotaur and HMS Theseus. She was captured and recommissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Aboukir.

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