French ship Le Triomphant (1778)

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The Triomphant was an 80-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

Laid down in Toulon in March 1778 by the designer-constructeur Joseph-Marie-Blaise Coulomb, she was launched on 31 March 1779 and completed in June 1779. She took part in the three battles at Guichen in 1780 and served in the American war of Independence. She was captured by the Anglo-Spanish forces at Toulon in August 1793, and was largely destroyed by fire in Toulon on the 18 December 1793 during the evacuation of that port. Her remains were refloated in 1805 and scrapped