Wattignies was a 74-gun built for the French Navy during the 1790s. Completed in 1794, she played a minor role in the Napoleonic Wars.
Designed by Jacques-Noël Sané, 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 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.
Wattignes was laid down at the Arsenal de Lorient in May 1793 and named on 29 November. The ship was launched on 8 October 1794 and completed in December. She ferried troops and munitions to Sainte Dominigue during FebruaryâÂÂAugust 1796. Wattignes took part in the French expedition to Ireland at the end of 1796 under Captain Antoine René Thévenard. In July 1808, she was converted to a fluyt and was condemned on 5 September. Wattignes was broken up between 21 September 1808 and 26 April 1809.