Cpt Kangaroo
09-05-2013, 19:10
French Ship of the Line (74) Commerce de Bordeaux (1786)
France
Class: Téméraire-class ship of the line -class three
(18 ships in this class)
(Temeraire Class Ships URL)
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.php?1493-T%E9m%E9raire-class-ships-of-the-line
Armament: 74 guns, 28 × 36-pounder long guns, 30 × 18-pounder long guns, 16 × 8-pounder long guns,
4 × 36-pdr carronades
Compliment: 700
Launched: 1786
Length: 55.87 metres (183.3 ft)
Weight or Tonnage: 2,966 tonnes, 5,260 tonnes fully loaded
Draft: 7.26 metres (23.8 ft)
Notable Captains:
Louis-Léonce Trullet
Theatres of War:
(Explanation of French name changing URL)
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.php?1510-The-French-traite-of-multiple-name-changes
January 1794 renamed Bonnet Rouge
February 1794 Renamed Timoleon
March 1795 Present at the Action off Genoa.
August 1798 took part in the Battle of the Nile
Commerce de Bordeaux, renamed Bonnet Rouge in January 1794 and thenTimoléon in February 1794.
FATE: Ran aground and burnt at the Battle of the Nile, August 1798
6567
France
Class: Téméraire-class ship of the line -class three
(18 ships in this class)
(Temeraire Class Ships URL)
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.php?1493-T%E9m%E9raire-class-ships-of-the-line
Armament: 74 guns, 28 × 36-pounder long guns, 30 × 18-pounder long guns, 16 × 8-pounder long guns,
4 × 36-pdr carronades
Compliment: 700
Launched: 1786
Length: 55.87 metres (183.3 ft)
Weight or Tonnage: 2,966 tonnes, 5,260 tonnes fully loaded
Draft: 7.26 metres (23.8 ft)
Notable Captains:
Louis-Léonce Trullet
Theatres of War:
(Explanation of French name changing URL)
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.php?1510-The-French-traite-of-multiple-name-changes
January 1794 renamed Bonnet Rouge
February 1794 Renamed Timoleon
March 1795 Present at the Action off Genoa.
August 1798 took part in the Battle of the Nile
Commerce de Bordeaux, renamed Bonnet Rouge in January 1794 and thenTimoléon in February 1794.
FATE: Ran aground and burnt at the Battle of the Nile, August 1798
6567