Ville de Berlin was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

Career

Ordered on 24 April 1804 as Thésée, Ville de Berlin was one of the ships built in the various shipyards captured by the First French Empire in Holland and Italy in a crash programme to replenish the ranks of the French Navy. She took her definitive name on 2 July 1807.

French ship Ville de Berlin (1807)

She was commissioned on 21 September 1807 and became a part of the Escaut squadron under Vice-Admiral Missiessy. In 1814, she took part in the defence of Antwerp.

French ship Ville de Berlin (1807)

At the Bourbon Restoration, she was renamed Atlas and sailed to Brest. Renamed Ville de Berlin during the Hundred Days, she took her name of Atlas back after Napoléon's second abdication.

French ship Ville de Berlin (1807)

Struck from the Navy lists on 23 February 1819, she became a storage hulk in Brest.

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Ships of the line of the French Navy

Téméraire-class ships of the line

1807 ships