Pluton was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy launched at Rochefort in 1778. Pluton took part in the Battle of Martinique on 17 April 1780 under Ship-of-the-line Captain Joseph Léon de La Marthonie. Ship-of-the-line Captain François Hector d'Albert de Rions captained her at the Battle of Martinique on 29 April 1781, at the Battle of the Chesapeake on 5 September 1781, at the Battle of Saint Kitts on 24–25 January 1782, and at the Battle of the Saintes on 12 April 1782. Pluton participated in French expedition to Ireland in December 1796 under Ship-of-the-line Captain Jean-Marie Lebrun. She was renamed Dugommier in 1797 and seems to have seen little further active service before being broken up in 1805.
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