Brillant was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. The British captured her while still on keel, ready for launch, at the fall of Genoa in 1814. She was completed for the Royal Navy and served as HMS "Genoa" until 1838. On 20 October 1827 "Genoa" took part in the Battle of Navarino where her captain Walter Bathurst was killed.