''Ville de Berlin'' was a

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of the

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Ordered on 24 April 1804 as ''Thésée'', ''Ville de Berlin'' was one of the ships built in the various shipyards captured by the

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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. 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. At the

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, she was renamed ''Atlas'' and sailed to Brest. Renamed ''Ville de Berlin'' during the

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, she took her name of ''Atlas'' back after Napoléon's second abdication. Struck from the Navy lists on 23 February 1819, she became a storage hulk in Brest.

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