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HMS Orion (1787)

HMS Orion (1787 at Deptford) a 74-gun 3rd rate ship of the line which fought at the Battle of the Nile and at Trafalgar where, with Ajax, she forced the surrender of the French ship Intrépide (74).

She was broken up in 1814.



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