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Ship of the line of the French Navy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Commerce de Marseille was a Téméraire class of the French Navy. She was funded by a don des vaisseaux donation from Marseille.
Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Commerce de Marseille (1785), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris. | |
History | |
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France | |
Name | Commerce de Marseille |
Builder | Toulon shipyard |
Laid down | September 1784 |
Launched | 7 October 1785 |
Completed | September 1787 |
Renamed |
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Captured | Handed over to the British on 29 August 1793 |
Fate | Burnt on 18 December 1793 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type | Téméraire-class ship of the line |
Displacement |
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Length | 55.87 metres (183.3 ft) (172 pied) |
Beam | 14.90 metres (48 ft 11 in) |
Draught | 7.26 metres (23.8 ft) (22 pied) |
Propulsion | Up to 2,485 m2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails |
Armament |
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Armour | Timber |
She was renamed Lys in July 1786 and Tricolore in October 1792. She was one of the ships in Toulon when the city was surrendered to a British force under Admiral Lord Hood in August 1793. Tricolore was subsequently burned by the British in their withdrawal from the port in December that year.
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