The Austerlitz was a first-rate

First-rate

First rate was the designation used by the Royal Navy for its largest ships of the line. While the size and establishment of guns and men changed over the 250 years that the rating system held sway, from the early years of the eighteenth century the first rates comprised those ships mounting 100...

 118-gun ship of the line

Ship of the line

A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed from the 17th through the mid-19th century to take part in the naval tactic known as the line of battle, in which two columns of opposing warships would manoeuvre to bring the greatest weight of broadside guns to bear...

 of the French Navy

French Navy

The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale is the maritime arm of the French military. It includes a full range of fighting vessels, from patrol boats to a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and 10 nuclear-powered submarines, four of which are capable of launching...

, of the Océan type, designed by Jacques-Noël Sané

Jacques-Noël Sané

Jacques-Noël Sané was a French naval engineer, one of the most successful shipbuilders of the Age of Sail.Sané studied under Duhamel du Monceau...

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Ordered on 19 December 1805 to reinforce the Navy after the disaster of Trafalgar

Battle of Trafalgar

The Battle of Trafalgar was a sea battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars ....

, she was commissioned in Toulon in May 1809 under Captain Guien.

29 August 1814, after the Hundred Days

Hundred Days

The Hundred Days, sometimes known as the Hundred Days of Napoleon or Napoleon's Hundred Days for specificity, marked the period between Emperor Napoleon I of France's return from exile on Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815...

, she was transferred from Toulon to Brest, along with Wagram

French ship Wagram (1810)

The Wagram was a first-rate 118-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, of the Océan type, designed by Jacques-Noël Sané.Begun as Monarque, she was commissioned as Wagram in Toulon on 15 June 1810 under Captain Baudin....

 and Commerce de Paris

French ship Commerce de Paris (1806)

The Commerce de Paris was a 110-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, lead ship of her class.She was offered to the French Republic by a subscription of merchants from Paris on 27 May 1803 and started as Ville de Paris...

, where she was disarmed in December.

She was eventually struck and broken up in 1837.