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''Fougueux'' was a 74-gun French ship of the line built at Lorient from 1784 to 1785 by engineer Segondat. ==Ship history== In 1796, she took part in the Expédition d'Irlande under Esprit-Tranquille Maistral. She took part in the Battle of Trafalgar, firing the first shot of the battle upon . She later attempted to come to the aid of the by engaging . After badly damaging the ''Fougueux'' with broadsides, ''Temeraire''s first-lieutenant, Thomas Fortescue Kennedy, led a boarding party onto ''Fougueux'', entering the French ship via her main deck ports and chains. The French tried to defend the decks port by port, but were steadily overwhelmed. ''Fougueux''s captain, Louis Alexis Baudoin, had suffered a fatal wound earlier in the fighting, leaving Commander François Bazin in charge. On learning that nearly all of the officers were dead or wounded and that most of the guns were out of action, Bazin surrendered the ship to Kennedy. According to the report of Captain Lucas of the ''Redoutable'', On the day after the battle a severe storm battered the surviving ships. ''Fougueux'' was driven ashore near Torre Bermeja on the coast of Spain and was wrecked. Only 25 men aboard, British prize crew and French prisoners, survived.〔Clowes (1900), p.163〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「French ship Fougueux (1785)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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