French ship Commerce de Marseille (1785)

The Téméraire-class ships had a length of , a beam of and a depth of hold of . The ships displaced 3,069 tonneaux and had a mean draught of . They had a tonnage of 1,537 port tonneaux. Their crew numbered 705 officers and ratings during wartime. They were fitted with three masts and ship rigged. The muzzle-loading, smoothbore armament of the Téméraire class consisted of twenty-eight 36-pounder long guns on the lower gun deck, thirty 18-pounder long guns and thirty 18-pounder long guns on the upper gun deck. On the quarterdeck and forecastle were a total of a dozen 8-pounder long guns and ten 36-pounder carronades. == Construction and career ==

Commerce de Marseille was ordered in 1784 and was laid down at the Arsenal de Toulon in October. She was completed in September 1787. She was renamed Tricolore on 6 October 1792. She was one of the ships in Toulon when the city was surrendered to a British force under Admiral Lord Hood in August 1793. Tricolore was subsequently burned by the British in their withdrawal from the port in December that year. ==References==