''Argonaute'' was a

74-gun The "seventy-four" was a type of two- decked sailing ship of the line, which nominally carried 74 guns. It was developed by the French navy in the 1740s, replacing earlier classes of 60- and 62-gun ships, as a larger complement to the recently-de ...

ship of the line of the

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Richard Henry Nibbs (1816-1893) - The Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805 - BHC0555 - Royal Museums Greenwich

Under '' Vice-amiral''

Villaret de Joyeuse Louis-Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse (29 May 1747Granier, p.87Some biographers give a date of 1750 (Levot, p.541). Granier quotes the registers of Sainte-Marie parish. – 24 July 1812Levot, p.544) was a French admiral. Villaret was born at Auch ...

, she took part in the expedition to Saint-Domingue in 1802. She took part in the

Battle of Trafalgar The Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805) was a naval engagement between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (180 ...

in October 1805, and managed to return to

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. Unable to leave the harbour because of the British blockage and damage, she was exchanged for the in December 1806. She was renamed ''Argonauta'', but was never recommissioned.

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