French ship Ville de Marseille (1812)

For other ships with the same name, see Ville de Marseille.

Ville de Marseille Engraving by Roux
History
France
Name:	Ville de Marseille
Namesake:	Marseille
Ordered:	18 February 1811
Builder:	Toulon harbour
Laid down:	27 June 1811
Launched:	15 August 1812
Commissioned:	17 November 1812
Struck:	22 June 1858
Fate:	broken up in Toulon in 1877.
General characteristics
Class & type:	Téméraire class ship of the line
Displacement:	2966 tonnes 5260 tonnes fully loaded
Length:	55.87 metres (183.3 ft) (172 pied)
Beam:	14.90 metres (48 ft 11 in)
Draught:	7.26 metres (23.8 ft) (22 pied)
Propulsion:	Up to 2,485 m2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails
Armament:	74 guns: Lower gundeck: 28 × 36-pounder long guns Upper gundeck: 30 × 18-pounder long guns Forecastle and Quarter deck: 16 × 8-pounder long guns 4 × 36-pounder carronades
Armour:	Timber

Ville de Marseille was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

In 1827, she was upgraded to 80 guns. The next year, she took part in operations in Eastern Mediterranean under captain Cuvillier.

She 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.

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  1/24th scale model of Ville de Marseille, on display at the naval museum of Marseille

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References

• Jean-Michel Roche, Dictionnaire des Bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, tome I
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