The Royal Navy's Ville de Paris, 2,351 tons and mounting 110 guns, was built at Chatham in 1795, served throughout the Napoleonic Wars and was eventually broken up in 1845. She was named after Admiral de Grasse's magnificent flagship, the pride of the French navy, which Lord Rodney had captured at the Battle of the Saints, in the West Indies, on 12 April 1782, but which foundered off Newfoundland in September the same year.