Le Commerce de Marseille Vaisseau Francais de 118 Cans (French Fighting Ship)

Coloured etching showing the the port side of the Commerce de Marseilles (1788), which was captured from the French at the Siege of Toulon and added 29 August 1793. Commerce de Marseiiles was an 118 gun, first rate three deck ship of the line of the French Navy and a lead ship of the Ocean Class. She is shown moored in placid water, the rigging clear, with sails closely furled along the yards of all three masts. A ship's boat is approaching her bow, and other ships of the line are pictured on the left and right side of the composition, also moored near the headland. The French flag flies her mizzen mast.. The print is inscribed: "Le Commerce de Marseille / Vaisseau Francais de 118 Cans."

Object Details

ID: PAH9410
Type: Print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Canali, Gaetano; Sewell, John
Vessels: Commerce de Marseilles 1788 [French navy]
Date made: Published 1801
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 472 x 631 mm; Plate: 331 x 471 mm