French Ship of the Line (74) Commerce de Bordeaux (1786) Ships Biography

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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.p...ps-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.p...e-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

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NARRATIVE:


Commerce de Bordeaux was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. She was funded by a don des vaisseaux donation from Bordeaux.

Renamed Timoléon in February 1794, she took part in the Battle of the Nile under captain Louis-Léonce Trullet. In the confusion of the battle, her rudder was damaged by misdirected fire from the neighbouring Généreux. She fought for three days, eventually running aground and set on fire by her crew. She exploded around noon on 2 August, the last fighting French ship of the battle.



Scale model of the Achille, sister-ship of the French ship Commerce de Bordeaux (1785), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.

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Reserved again

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Last one

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When are these guys going to haul down their laundry?