title: Pompée-class ship of the line
text: # Pompée-class ship of the line
  
  The Pompée-class ships of the line were a class of two 74-gun third rates. They were built for the Royal Navy to the lines of the French ship Pompée, a Téméraire-class ship of the line which had been captured by Britain in 1793.
  
  ## Ships
  
  * HMS Superb
  
      Builder: Pitcher, Northfleet
      Ordered: 10 June 1795
      Launched: 19 March 1798
      Fate: Broken up, 1826
  * HMS Achilles
  
      Builder: Cleverley, Gravesend
      Ordered: 10 June 1795
      Launched: 16 April 1798
      Fate: Sold out of the service, 1865
  