Commerce de Paris class ship of the line
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| File:Commerce de Paris mp3h9492.jpg Scale model of the Commerce de Paris | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Commerce de Paris |
| Builders: | Toulon (Commerce de Paris), Rochefort (Iéna). Plans by Jacques-Noël Sané |
| Operators: |  French Navy |
| Preceded by: | Océan |
| In service: | 15-6-1807 - April 1884 |
| Completed: | 6 |
| Cancelled: | 4 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | 110-gun ship of the line |
| Length: | 62.5 metres |
| Beam: | 16.3 metres |
| Draught: | 8.1 metres |
| Complement: | 1,069 men |
| Armament: |
110 guns (nominally), 114 guns (actual):
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| Armour: | Timber |
| Notes: | Ships in class include: Commerce de Paris, Duc d'Angueleme |
The Commerce de Paris class was a ship of the line class of the French Navy, designed in 1804 by Jacques-Noël Sané as a shortened version of his 118-gun Océan Class three-deckers. Two ships were built to this design in France; four more were begun at Antwerp in 1810-11, but these were never completed.
- Builder: Toulon shipyard
- Ordered: 14 May 1804
- Laid down: October 1804
- Launched: 8 August 1806
- Completed: May 1807
- Fate: razeed in 1825. Renamed Commerce in August 1830, then Borda in December 1840 and Vulcain in August 1863; scrapped in 1885.
- Builder: Rochefort shipyard
- Ordered: 1805
- Laid down: April 1805
- Launched: 30 August 1814
- Completed: January 1815
- Fate: Renamed Iéna in March 1815, reverting to Duc d'Angueleme in July 1815; became Iéna again in August 1830. Scrapped in 1915.
- Hymen (never finished)
- Builder: Antwerp shipyard
- Ordered: 23 July 1810
- Fate: scraped on keel in 1814
- Monarque (never finished; renamed Wagram on 15 December 1810)
- Builder: Antwerp shipyard
- Ordered: 23 July 1810
- Fate: scraped on keel in 1814
- Neptune (Never finished)
- Builder: Antwerp shipyard
- Ordered: 18 March 1811
- Fate: Sold and scraped on keel in 1814
- Terrible (Never finished)
- Builder: Antwerp shipyard
- Ordered: 15 March 1811
- Fate: Sold and scraped on keel in 1814
Two more ships to be same design were ordered in 1812 to be built at Amsterdam and at Rotterdam, but neither was named or laid down.
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