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French ship Commerce de Paris (1806)

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The Borda
History
French Navy EnsignFrance
NamesakeParis
Ordered14 May 1804
BuilderToulon shipyard, plans by Sané
Laid downDecember 1804
Launched8 August 1806
Commissioned15 June 1807
Decommissioned1 December 1814
FateScrapped
General characteristics
Class and type110-gun Commerce de Paris class ship of the line
Length62.5 metres
Beam16.3 metres
Draught8.1 metres
Complement1060 men
Armamentlist error: mixed text and list (help)
110 guns:
  • 30 x 36 pdr (16 kg)
  • 32 x 24 pdr (11 kg)
  • 30 x 12 pdr
  • 8 x 8 pdr (3.6 kg)
  • 12 x 36 pdr (16 kg) carronades

The Commerce de Paris was a 110-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, lead ship of her class.

She was offered to the French Republic by a subscription of merchants from Paris on 27 May 1803 and started as Ville de Paris. She was renamed Commerce de Paris on 21 November 1804.

She was decommissioned in 1814. From 1822 to 1825, she was razeed by one battery. In 1830, she was renamed Commerce, then Borda in 1839. She was used as a school ship from 1840. Renamed Vulcain in 1863, she was eventually scrapped in 1885.