French ship Commerce de Bordeaux (1785)

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History
Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Commerce de Bordeaux (1785), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
France
Name	Commerce de Bordeaux
Builder	Toulon
Laid down	September 1784
Launched	15 September 1785
In service	1786
Renamed	Timoléon in February 1794
Fate	Ran aground and burnt at the Battle of the Nile, August 1798
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 m (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 carronades
Armour	Timber

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.

References

Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr. Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2013.

v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1798
Shipwrecks	January (unknown date): Castor, Pritzler 17 Feb: Enfant de la Patrie 25 Feb: General Eliott 4 Apr: HMS Pallas 5 Apr: Princess Amelia 12 Apr: HMS Lively April (unknown date): Quatorze Juillet 23 May: HMS Braak 23 Jun: HMS Rover 30 Jun: HMS Pique 18 Jul: HMS Aigle 24 Jul: HMS Resistance 26 Jul: HMS Garland 1 Aug: Mercure, Orient, Sérieuse 2 Aug: Artémise, Guerrier, Heureux, Timoléon 15 Aug: HMS Etrusco 13 Oct: HMS Jason 3 Dec: HMS Kingfisher 9 Dec: Henry Addington 10 Dec: HMS Colossus 14 Dec: HMS Coquille December (unknown date): Tarleton Unknown date: Parr
Other incidents	January (unknown date): Minerva 20 Apr: Woodcot 28 Jun: Lion 23 Jul: HMS Etrusco 2 Aug: Tonnant
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