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French ship Commerce de Lyon (1807)

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Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Commerce de Lyon (1807), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
NameCommerce de Lyon
BuilderAntwerp[1]
Laid downNovember 1803 [1]
Launched9 April 1807 [1]
Decommissioned12 February 1819 [1]
FateBroken up 1830
General characteristics [2]
Class and typeTéméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement
  • 2,966 tonnes
  • 5,260 tonnes fully loaded
Length55.87 metres (183.3 ft) (172 pied)
Beam14.90 metres (48 ft 11 in)
Draught7.26 metres (23.8 ft) (22 pied)
PropulsionUp to 2,485 m2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails
Armament
ArmourTimber

Commerce de Lyon was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

Career

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Ordered on 29 September 1803, Commerce de Lyon was one of the ships built in the various shipyards captured by the First French Empire in Holland and Italy in a crash programme to replenish the ranks of the French Navy.

Commissioned under Commander Victor-André Hulot-Gury,[3] she was part of Missiessy's squadron of the Escaut from 1810 to 1813. In March 1813, she was appointed to defend Antwerp.[1]

After the Treaty of Paris in 1814, she was one of the 12 ships of the line France was authorised to keep, and she was sailed to Brest. Put in ordinary there, she was never reactivated; she was struck on 23 February 1819 and broken up in 1830.[1]

Citations

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Roche, vol.1, p.122
  2. ^ Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr. Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
  3. ^ Quintin, p.176

References

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  • Quintin, Danielle; Quintin, Bernard (2003). Dictionnaire des capitaines de Vaisseau de Napoléon (in French). S.P.M. p. 176. ISBN 2-901952-42-9.
  • Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 122. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.