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}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Océan|ship of the line}} | Ship displacement=5,098 tonnes | Ship tons burthen=2,746 tonnes | 65.18|m|ftin|abbr=on}} (196.6 French feet) | 16.24|m|ftin|abbr=on}} (50 French feet) | Ship height= | 8.12|m|ftin|abbr=on}} (25 French feet) | Ship power= | 3 265|m2|abbr=on}} | Ship sail plan= | Ship speed= | Ship troops= | Ship complement=1,079 | Ship crew= | Ship time to activate= | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | Ship armament=* Lower deck:- lower deck: 32 × 36-pounder guns
- middle deck: 34 × 24-pounder guns
- upper deck: 34 × 12-pounder guns
- Fc: 18 × 8-pounder guns + 6 × 36-pounder carronades
| Ship armour= | Ship armor= | Ship aircraft= | Ship aircraft facilities= | 208|ft|4|in|m|abbr=on}}, the longest of any 3-decker ever built. She was 2,746 tonnes burthen, also a record.
}} | Commerce de Marseille was a 118-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, lead ship[4] of the {{sclass-|Océan|ship of the line|4}}. She was funded by a don des vaisseaux donation from the chamber of commerce of Marseille. Career Built on state-of-the-art plans by Sané, she was dubbed the "finest ship of the century". Her construction was difficult because of a lack of wood, and soon after her completion, she was disarmed, in March 1791. Commerce de Marseille came under British control during the Siege of Toulon. When the city fell to the French, she evacuated the harbour for Portsmouth. She was briefly used as a stores ship, but on a journey to the Caribbean Sea, in 1795, she was badly damaged in a storm and had to limp back to Portsmouth. She remained there as a hulk until she was broken up in 1856. Notes and references Notes 1. ^Boudriot, p.21
2. ^1 Roche, vol.1, Commerce de Marseille
3. ^Demerliac, 1774 à 1792
4. ^Commerce de Marseille was ordered after États de Bourgogne (which was later renamed Océan), but launched before her; therefore, the ship type is alternatively called Commerce de Marseille class or Océan class
References {{reflist|30em}} Bibliography - "Le vaisseau trois-ponts l’Océan", Jean Boudriot, in Neptunia n° 102 (1971), page 21.
- {{cite book|title=La Marine de Louis XVI: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1774 à 1792|last=Demerliac|first=Alain|year=2004|publisher=Éditions Ancre|isbn=2-906381-23-3|language=French}}
- {{cite book|first=Jean-Michel|last=Roche|year=2005|title=Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours|isbn=978-2-9525917-0-6|oclc=165892922|publisher=Group Retozel-Maury Millau|volume=1}} (1671-1870)
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