The ''Trajan'' was a
74-gun ship of the line
A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line was designed for the naval tactic known as the line of battle, which depended on the two colu ...
of the
French Navy.
In 1793, ''Trajan'' was commissioned in Lorient, under captain
Villaret de Joyeuse.
At the
Bataille du 13 prairial an 2, along with , she engaged and dismasted the British .
In 1797, she took part in the
Expédition d'Irlande, an ill-fated attempt to invade Ireland. On 17 December 1797, she was renamed ''Gaulois''.
She was eventually broken up in 1805.
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