Albanais was a 74-gun built for the French Navy during the first decade of the 19th century. Completed in 1809, she played a minor role in the Napoleonic Wars.
Albanais was one of the of the Téméraire class that was specially intended for construction in some of the shipyards in countries occupied by the French, where there was less depth of water than in the main French shipyards. The ships had a length of , a beam of and a depth of hold of . The ships displaced 2,781 tonneaux and had a mean draught of . They had a tonnage of 1,381 port tonneaux. Their crew numbered 705 officers and ratings during wartime. They were fitted with three masts and ship rigged.
The muzzle-loading, smoothbore armament of the Téméraire class consisted of twenty-eight 36-pounder long guns on the lower gun deck and thirty 18-pounder long guns on the upper gun deck. The ships ordered in 1803âÂÂ1804 were intended to mount sixteen 8-pounder long guns on their forecastle and quarterdeck, plus four 36-pounder obusiers on the poop deck (). Later ships were intended to have fourteen 8-pounders and ten 36-pounder carronades without any obusiers, but the numbers of 8-pounders and carronades actually varied between a total of 20 to 26 weapons.
Albanais was ordered on 31 July 1806 and laid down on 9 April in Antwerp. The ship was launched on 2 October 1808, commissioned on 1 October 1808, and completed in April 1809. She had a Danish crew until May 1813. Albanais served in Missiessy's Escault Squadron under Pierre Lhermite. In 1814, according to the terms of the Treaty of Paris, she was surrendered to the Dutch and renamed Batavier.