Commerce de Paris-class ship of the line
The Commerce de Paris class were a series of ships of the line of the French Navy, designed in 1804 by Jacques-Noël Sané as a shortened version of his 118-gun Océan-class three-deckers, achieved by removing a pair of guns from each deck so that they became 110-gun ships. Two ships were built to this design in France. Four more were begun at Antwerp in 1810–1811, but these were never completed and were broken up on the ways; three more were ordered in Holland, but these were never laid down.
 Scale model of Commerce de Paris | |
| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Commerce de Paris |
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| Preceded by: | Océan class |
| Succeeded by: | Valmy |
| In service: | 15 June 1807 – April 1884 |
| Planned: | 9 |
| Completed: | 2 |
| Cancelled: | 7 |
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| Type: | 110-gun ship of the line |
| Length: | 60.42 m (198.2 ft) |
| Beam: | 16.24 m (53.3 ft) |
| Draught: | 8.12 m (26.6 ft) |
| Complement: | 1,069 men |
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| Armour: | Timber |
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 on 11 August 1830, then Borda on 18 December 1839 and Vulcain on 18 August 1863; broken up in 1885.
- Duc d'Angoulême
- Builder: Rochefort shipyard
- Ordered: 8 May 1804
- Laid down: April 1805
- Launched: 30 August 1814
- Completed: January 1815
- Fate: Renamed Iéna on 22 March 1815, reverting to Duc d'Angueleme on 15 July 1815; became Iéna again on 9 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
- Winfield, Rif and Roberts, Stephen (2015) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786–1861: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.