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French ship Commerce de Bordeaux (1785)

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Name
  
Commerce de Bordeaux

Laid down
  
September 1784

Length
  
56 m

Weight
  
1,966 tons

Builder
  
Toulon

In service
  
1786

Construction started
  
September 1784

French ship Commerce de Bordeaux (1785)

Renamed
  
Timoléon in February 1794

Fate
  
Ran aground and burnt at the Battle of the Nile, August 1798

Commerce de Bordeaux was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. She was funded by a don des vaisseaux donation from Bordeaux.

Renamed Timoléon in February 1794, she took part in the Battle of the Nile under captain Louis-Léonce Trullet. In the confusion of the battle, her rudder was damaged by misdirected fire from the neighbouring Généreux. She fought for three days, eventually running aground and set on fire by her crew. She exploded around noon on 2 August, the last fighting French ship of the battle.

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French ship Commerce de Bordeaux (1785) Wikipedia