title: French ship Borée (1785)
text: # French ship Borée (1785)
  
  Borée was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
  
  ## Career
  
  In 1790, she joined the Brest squadron. Between May 1792 and January 1793, under Captain de Grimouard, she escorted a convoy from Saint Domingue to Rochefort, before being decommissioned.
  
  On 12 April 1794, she was ordered razeed into a 50-gun frigate and renamed Ça Ira. Two months later, she was again renamed to Agricola. Recommissioned on 24 June, she served for two years before being hulked in Rochefort and used as a hospital.
  
  She was eventually broken up in 1803
  
  ## Citations
  
  * 1 2 3 4 Roche, vol.1, p.79
  * ↑ Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr. Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
  