The Scipion was a French linership of 74 guns of Bold Classe, built by engineer Caro with Lorient between 1799 and 1801. It was under the orders of the Vice-admiral Pierre Dumanoir Pelley at the time of the Bataille of Trafalgar.

Dumanoir ordered the six ships of the avant-garde of the French fleet, with Formidable the , Scipion , Duguay-Trouin , Mont Blanc , Intrepid the and Neptune . The attack of Nelson left these ships apart from principal confrontation and Dumanoir immediately does not obey the orders of Villeneuve to enter the battle. When they engaged finally, the majority of the buildings drew only some blows from guns.

The November 3rd 1805, the British admiral Sir Richard Strachan, with the Caesar , Hero , Courageous , Namur and 4 frigates, beat and captured the remainder of the squadron at the time of the Bataille of the Cape Ortegal. Scipion was taken by HMS Phoenix and HMS Revolutionary , and re-used by the Royal Navy after having been famous HMS Scipion .

With the service of Royal Navy

Scipion was based with Plymouth until in 1811. It became then the flagship of the rear-admiral Hon. R. Stopford. Its fleet being made up of four linerships, 13 frigate S, 7 corvette S and of 8 cruisers of the Company of the Eastern Indies, captured on the island of Java the September 8th 1811.

It was then based at sea the Mediterranean until the October 29th 1814 when it returned to Portsmouth, withdrawn of the service in 1816, it was dismantled in 1819.

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