The Polonais was a Téméraire class

Téméraire class ship of the line

The Téméraire class ships of the line was a class of 107 74-gun ships of the line built between 1782 and 1813 for the French navy. The type was and remains the most numerous class of capital ship ever built....

 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy

French Navy

The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale is the maritime arm of the French military. It includes a full range of fighting vessels, from patrol boats to a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and 10 nuclear-powered submarines, four of which are capable of launching...

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First named Glorieux, she was renamed on 23 February 1807.

In 1809, under captain Mequet, she departed Lorient with Troude

Amable Troude

Amable Gilles Troude was a French Navy officer, hero of the Napoleonic wars.- Early career :...

's squadron, bound for the Caribbean. The squadron also comprised Hautpoult and Courageux

French ship Courageux (1806)

The Courageux was a 80-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, lead ship of her class.She was started as Alcide, and renamed in 1802. She was commissioned on 8 April 1806 under Amable Troude. On 16 February 1809, she left Lorient as flagship of a squadron also comprising Polonais and Hautpoult.She...

. On 29 March, the ships arrived at the Saintes and landed reinforcements.

On 29 May, Polonais and Courageux reached Cherbourg, along with 7 prizes captured on the way. Hautpoult had been captured in the Action of 14–17 April 1809.

In April 1814, at the Bourbon Restoration

Bourbon Restoration

The Bourbon Restoration is the name given to the period following the successive events of the French Revolution , the end of the First Republic , and then the forcible end of the First French Empire under Napoleon  – when a coalition of European powers restored by arms the monarchy to the...

, she was renamed Lys; captained by Troude, she ferried Louis XVIII back to France. She was briefly renamed Polonais during the Hundred Days

Hundred Days

The Hundred Days, sometimes known as the Hundred Days of Napoleon or Napoleon's Hundred Days for specificity, marked the period between Emperor Napoleon I of France's return from exile on Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815...

, and back to Lys again.

From 1822, she was used as a storing hulk, and she was broken up in Brest the 1825.

Sources and references

• Ships of the line