Orient

Sunk

Type	Ship of the line
Rate	First rate
Guns	120 guns
War	French Revolutionary Wars

Service

1791–1792	Dauphin Royal	France
1792–1795	Sans Culotte	France
from 1795	Orient	France

120-gun first rate, Vice-Admiral Brueys's flagship at the Nile. She caught fire at about nine in the evening and blew up an hour later with the army's pay chest; Brueys had already been killed, and her captain, Casabianca, died with his young son.

1/48 scale model of the Océan class 120-gun ship of the line Commerce de Marseille, on display at Marseille naval museum, combined with a half-hull of a generic Ocean-type 120-gun ship of the line on display at Brest navl museum. Photo: Rama, CC BY-SA 2.0 fr · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

120 guns

Lower deck: 32 36-pounder guns
Middle deck: 34 24-pounder guns
Upper deck: 34 12-pounder guns
Quarterdeck and forecastle: 18 × 8-pounder guns, 6 × 36-pounder carronades

Builder	Toulon Arsenal
Laid down	May 1790
Launched	20 July 1791
Commissioned	August 1793
Displacement	5,095 tonneaux
Length	65.18 m (213 ft 10 in) (196.6 French feet)
Complement	1,079

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched as Dauphin Royal

20 July 1791

Renamed Sans Culotte

1792

Battle of Genoa

Survived

as Sans Culotte

13–14 March 1795

As Sans Culotte; Rear-Admiral Pierre Martin

Renamed Orient

1795

Battle of the Nile

Sunk

1–3 August 1798

Brueys's flagship; blew up. Brueys and Casabianca killed