:::: Napoleonic Ships & American War of Independence - FRANCE
Commerce de Marseilles
Code - NPF01
£3.50
Class - 120 Guns
Description - COMMERCE DE MARSEILLE NPF01
FRENCH 120 GUN SHIP
Designed by Sané, and completed 1788, she was captured
by the British at Toulon, and served in the Royal Navy
until 1802 as a stores ship. Sister ships:- Orient, Océan. Majesteux,
Vengeur, Austerlitz, Wagram. Later ships - Impérial, Montebello, Héros,
Souverain, Trocadéro, Friedland, Ville-de-Paris, Louis XIV & Roi de Rome
(scrapped on stocks) replaced 12pdr with 18pdr guns..
Armament 32 x 36pdr, 34 x 24pdr
34 x 12pdr, 20 x 8pdr
4 x 36pdr carronades
Colour Black with yellow strakes along gun
decks. Bulwarks - red. Deck - scrubbed teak.