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French ship Commerce de Paris (1806)

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Namesake
  
Paris

Laid down
  
December 1804

Decommissioned
  
1 December 1814

Launched
  
8 August 1806

Draft
  
8.1 m

Ordered
  
14 May 1804

Commissioned
  
15 June 1807

Construction started
  
December 1804

Length
  
62 m

Beam
  
16 m

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Builder
  
Toulon shipyard, plans by Sané

The Commerce de Paris was a 110-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, lead ship of her class.

Career

She was offered to the French Republic by a subscription of merchants from Paris on 27 May 1803 and started as Ville de Paris. She was renamed Commerce de Paris on 21 November 1804.

In 1808, she served as flagship of the Mediterranean squadron under Vice-Amiral Ganteaume and Contre-Amiral Cosmao, with Captain Violette as her flag officer. In 1809, Ganteaume transferred on Majestueux. In June 1809, command of Commerce de Paris was transferred to Captain Brouard.

On 29 August 1814, after the Hundred Days, she was transferred from Toulon to Brest, along with Austerlitz and Wagram, where she was decommissioned.

From 1822 to 1825, she was razeed by one battery. In 1830, she was renamed Commerce, then Borda in 1839. She was used as a school ship from 1840, replacing Orion. Renamed Vulcain in 1863, she was eventually scrapped in 1885.

References

French ship Commerce de Paris (1806) Wikipedia