French ship Commerce de Lyon (1807)

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
Name	Commerce de Lyon
Builder	Antwerp
Laid down	November 1803
Launched	9 April 1807
Decommissioned	12 February 1819
Fate	Broken up 1830
General characteristics
Class and type	Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement	2,966 tonnes 5,260 tonnes fully loaded
Length	55.87 metres (183.3 ft) (172 pied)
Beam	14.90 metres (48 ft 11 in)
Draught	7.26 metres (23.8 ft) (22 pied)
Propulsion	Up to 2,485 m2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails
Armament	74 guns: Lower gundeck: 28 × 36-pounder long guns Upper gundeck: 30 × 18-pounder long guns Forecastle and Quarter deck: 6 × 8-pounder long guns 10 × 36-pounder carronades
Armour	Timber

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

Career

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, she was part of Missiessy's squadron of the Escaut from 1810 to 1813. In March 1813, she was appointed to defend Antwerp.

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.

References

• 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.