French ship Ville de Marseille (1812)

Designed by Jacques-Noël Sané, 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 and thirty 18-pounder long guns on the upper gun deck. After about 1807, the armament on the quarterdeck and forecastle varied widely between ships with differing numbers of 8-pounder long guns and 36-pounder carronades. The total number of guns varied between sixteen and twenty-eight. The 36-pounder obusiers formerly mounted on the poop deck () in older ships were removed as obsolete. == Construction and career ==

Ville de Marseille was ordered on 18 February 1811 and laid down on 27 June at the Arsenal de Toulon. The ship was launched on 15 August 1812, commissioned on 17 November and was completed in December. In January 1813, Louis-André Senez was given command of Ville de Marseille. At the Bourbon Restoration in 1814, she was tasked with ferrying Duke Louis Philippe d'Orléans from Palermo to France. In 1824–1825, she was upgraded to 80 guns. The next year, she took part in operations in Eastern Mediterranean under Captain Cuvillier. Ville de Marseille took part in the Invasion of Algiers in 1830 as a troop ship. The next year, she took part in the Battle of the Tagus under Captain Baron Lasusse. In 1835 and 1836, she ferried troops to Algeria, before being refitted in 1841. Ville de Marseille took part in the Crimean War as a troopship, and in the Bombardment of Sevastopol. As one of the oldest ships in the navy, she was sent back to France in late 1854. She was used as a barracks hulk from 1858, and eventually broken up in Toulon in 1877. ==Notes==