Le Commerce de Marseille

Posted by F.F. on Sunday 18th of June 2017 03:41

These data are almost perfect.

196 French feet and 6 French inches are 63.83 m (209'5"). Beam was 50 French feet (16.24 m, 53'3½"). Depth of hold, 25 French feet (8.12 m, 26'7¾"). Draught of water, from 23 French feet and 5 inches to 25 French feet and 1 inch (7.61/8.15 m, 24'11½"/26'8¾").

Dislacement was really 5140 "tonneaux de poids" (5032ｔ).

Measurments were different according to the British Navy; for example, beam was measured without planking in the French Navy, but with planking in the British Navy.
According to the Royal Navy (William Laird Clowes & Clement Robert Markham, The Royal Navy : a history from the earliest times to the present, volume 4, London, Sampson Low & Marston, 1897, page 154), the Commerce de Marseilles gun-deck lenght was 208'4" (63.50 m);  her keel lenght, 172'⅛" (52.43 m); her beam, 54'9½" (16,70 m); her depth of hold, 25'½" (7.63 m). 2747 tons burthen (27.468 cubic feet of hold, or 7778 ㎥).

Posted by Brian on Thursday 30th of March 2017 21:54

At Toulon, a short time ago, was launched the Commerce de Marseilles, a fine ship of 120 guns presented to Louis the sixteenth by the merchants of Marseilles. Her guns are all on three decks, none on the poop or forecastle; and she is so constructed that her complete broadside of sixty guns, can be brought at the same time to bear on a single object; an advantage deserving the consideration of those in whom, with us, the department of constructing men of war lies...source Gazette of the United States New York May 22, 1790 page 464.