French ship Commerce de Marseille (1788)

	1⁄48th scale model on display at Marseille maritime museum
History
France
Name	Commerce de Marseille
Namesake	Marseille
Ordered	1786
Builder	Arsenal de Toulon
Laid down	September 1786 or April 1787
Launched	7 August 1788
Completed	October 1790
Out of service	2 August 1850
Stricken	1802
Captured	Seized as prize by Great Britain on 29 August 1793
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Commerce de Marseille
Fate	Broken up 1802
General characteristics
Class and type	Océan-class ship of the line
Displacement	5,098 tonnes
Tons burthen	2,746 tonnes
Length	65.18 m (213 ft 10 in) (196.6 French feet)
Beam	16.24 m (53 ft 3 in) (50 French feet)
Draught	8.12 m (26 ft 8 in) (25 French feet)
Propulsion	sail, 3,265 m2 (35,140 sq ft)
Complement	1,079
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;
Notes	Length of gun deck was 208 ft 4 in (63.50 m), 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 of the Océan class. She was funded by a don des vaisseaux donation from the chamber of commerce of Marseille.

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