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Commerce de Paris class ship of the line

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Name
  
Commerce de Paris

Preceded by
  
Océan class

Operators
  
French Navy

Succeeded by
  
Valmy

Commerce de Paris-class ship of the line

Builders
  
Toulon (Commerce de Paris), Rochefort (Iéna). Plans by Jacques-Noël Sané

In service
  
15 June 1807 – April 1884

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, by removing a pair of guns from each deck. Two ships were built to this design in France. Four more were begun at Antwerp in 1810-11, but these were never completed and were broken up on the ways; three more were ordered in Holland, but these were never laid down.

Ships

  • Commerce de Paris
    • 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; broken up in 1885.
  • Duc d'Angoulême
    • Builder: Rochefort shipyard Ordered: 8 May 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; broken up in 1886 (or 1915).
  • Monarque (never finished; renamed Wagram on 15 December 1810)
    • Builder: Antwerp shipyard Ordered: early 1810 (named 23 July 1810) Laid down: April 1810 Fate: Sold and broken up on the ways in 1814
  • Hymen (never finished)
    • Builder: Antwerp shipyard Ordered: early 1810 (named 23 July 1810) Laid down: May 1810 Fate: Sold and broken up on the ways in 1814
  • Neptune (Never finished)
    • Builder: Antwerp shipyard Ordered: 15 March 1811 (named 26 August 1811) Laid down: May 1811 Fate: Sold and broken up on the ways in 1814
  • Terrible (Never finished)
    • Builder: Antwerp shipyard Ordered: 15 March 1811 (named 26 August 1811) Laid down: June 1811 Fate: Sold and broken up on the ways in 1814

    In October 1811 Napoleon asked for three 110-gun ships to be begun at Amsterdam, but only one was ordered; two more ships to be same design were ordered in 1812 to be built at Amsterdam and at Rotterdam, but none of the three was named or laid down, although prefabrication of the frame for the first had been begun during 1813.

    References

    Commerce de Paris-class ship of the line Wikipedia
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