French ship Commerce de Marseille (1785)

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Commerce de Marseille and French ship Lys.

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Commerce de Marseille (1785), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name	Commerce de Marseille
Builder	Toulon shipyard
Laid down	September 1784
Launched	7 October 1785
Completed	September 1787
Renamed	Lys (July 1786) Tricolore (October 1792)
Captured	Handed over to the British on 29 August 1793
Fate	Burnt on 18 December 1793
General characteristics
Class and type	Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement	1,966 tonnes 3,260 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: 16 × 8-pounder long guns 4 × 36-pounder obusiers
Armour	Timber

Commerce de Marseille was a Téméraire class of the French Navy. She was funded by a don des vaisseaux donation from Marseille.

She was renamed Lys in July 1786 and Tricolore in October 1792. She was one of the ships in Toulon when the city was surrendered to a British force under Admiral Lord Hood in August 1793. Tricolore was subsequently burned by the British in their withdrawal from the port in December that year.

See also

• List of ships of the line of France