Designed by
Jacques-Noël Sané, the
Téméraire-class ships had an overall length of and a length at the
waterline of . They had a
beam of and a depth of
hold of . The ships
displaced 3,069
tonneaux and had a mean
draught of . They had a tonnage of 1,537
port tonneaux. Their crew numbered 705 officers and
ratings during wartime. They were fitted with three
masts and
ship rigged. The
muzzle-loading,
smoothbore armament of the
Téméraire class consisted of twenty-eight
36-pounder long guns on the lower
gun deck and thirty
18-pounder long guns on the upper gun deck. On the
quarterdeck and
forecastle were a total of sixteen
8-pounder long guns. Beginning with the ships completed after 1787, the armament of the
Téméraires began to change with the addition of four 36-pounder
obusiers on the
poop deck (). Some ships had instead twenty 8-pounders. == Construction and career ==