Apollon was a 74-gun built for the French Navy during the 1780s. Completed in 1785, she played a minor role in the French Revolutionary Wars.
The Téméraire-class ships had a length of , a beam of and a depth of hold of . The ships displaced 3,069 tonneaux and had a mean draught of . They had a tonnage of 1,537 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, thirty 18-pounder long guns and thirty 18-pounder long guns on the upper gun deck. On the quarterdeck and forecastle were a total of sixteen 8-pounder long guns. Beginning with the ships completed after 1787, the armament of the Téméraires began to change with the addition of four 36-pounder obusiers on the poop deck (). Some ships had instead twenty 8-pounders.
Apollon was laid down at the Arsenal de Rochefort in April 1787. The ship was launched about 21 May 1788 and completed later that year. In 1790, Apollon was the flagship of Charles Louis du Chilleau de La Roche, in Brest. Between 1791 and 1793, she was based in Saint-Domingue. The ship participated in the French expedition to Sardinia. During the Siege of Toulon, her commanding officer, Captain Imbert, negotiated the surrender of the town with Admiral Hood aboard . After the siege, Apollon ferried 1,500 anti-revolutionary prisoners to Rochefort, where most of them were executed. She took part in the battle of the Glorious First of June, and the Croisière du Grand Hiver ("Campaign of the Great Winter") in 1794âÂÂ1795. The ship was eventually broken up on 6 June 1798.