Louis-Léonce Trullet [SEP] place of death
Louis-Léonce Trullet
Louis-Léonce Trullet (Saint-Tropez, 6 October 1756 – Toulon, 1 February 1827) was a French Navy officer.
Biography.
Born to a family of sailors, and younger brother of Jean-François-Timothée Trullet, Louis-Léonce Trullet joined the Navy as a cabin boy on "Séduisant" in 1768. He served as a sailor on a number of ships before rising to helmsman in 1775.
From July 1776, he served as a lieutenant on a merchantman
French ship Commerce de Bordeaux (1785)
Commerce de Bordeaux was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. She was funded by a "don des vaisseaux" donation from Bordeaux.
Renamed "Timoléon" in February 1794, she took part in the Battle of the Nile under captain Louis-Léonce Trullet. In the confusion of the battle, her rudder was damaged by misdirected fire from the neighbouring "Généreux". She fought for three days, eventually running aground and set on fire by her crew