HMS Ville de Paris
HMS Ville de Paris, paintings of Thomas Butterworth
- 30 × 32- pounder
- 30 × 24 -pounder
- 32 × 18 -pounder
- 18 × 12 -pounder
The HMS Ville de Paris was a ship of the line first class of the Royal Navy with 110 cannons.
The ship was named after the French three-decker Ville de Paris, of 1782, the flag had to cancel at the Battle of Les Saintes. In the conversion of the conquered ships to Europe, the convoy came in September in a storm and two British and three captured ships of the line, including the Ville de Paris were lost.
The HMS Ville de Paris was appointed on 25 May 1788 set on 1 July 1789 and left Kiel on 7 July 1795 in Chatham from the stack. She served until 1815 as the flagship of many admirals. At great naval battles they did not participate. Shortly after her commissioning she was rammed by the British three-decker HMS Formidable on Christmas Day in 1796 and damaged. In 1797 it was followed by the HMS Victory, the flagship of the Mediterranean squadron. After 1799 she served as flagship of the Channel Fleet. During this time, she was flagship of the cover Squadron in the defense of A Coruña, in the so-called Battle of La Coruña in 1808 /09. Admiral Collingwood died in 1810 on board the Ville de Paris, while she was in front of the station Mahon. 1824 was assigned as a hospital ship to the port services and finally broken up in 1845.
The Ville de Paris was the first 110- gun ship of the Royal Navy and ushered in a new stage of development size. It was only in 1804 exceeded by the Hibernia and then in 1808 by the Caledonia with 120 cannons. The Hibernia in 1792 according to the same plans as the Ville de Paris placed in Plymouth at Kiel. During construction, but it was amidships to a 11 ft (about 3.30 m ) long section amidships extended and classified as a 120 - gun ship when it enters service in 1804. So you reached a new dimension and size to have been a very successful design. Placed out of service in 1855, it was sold until 1902.