French ship Merveilleux (1691). Personal life. Costa married Daniela Tuffanelli in 1970. The couple has a son, Andrea and 3 grandchildren, Heidi Elliott. Awards and recognition. His awards and recognitions include: Marcello Costa Marcello Costa (born 9 January 1940) is an Italian-born Australian medical researcher, academic, and public health advocate. He specializes in the structure and functions of the enteric nervous system. He taught in Turin, Melbourne, and Helsinki before moving to Adelaide in 1975 where he was a foundation lecturer at the Flinders Medical School, building the new discipline of neuroscience at the college. He has been at Flinders University since, where 	Marcello Costa
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28269574	French ship Merveilleux (1691) French ship Merveilleux (1691) The Merveilleux was a First Rank ship of the line of the French Royal Navy, the second vessel in the two-ship Foudroyant" Class. This ship was ordered in February 1691 to be built - like her sister - at Brest Dockyard, and on 13 May 1691 she was allotted the name "Merveilleux". The designer and builder of both ships was Blaise Pangalo. They were three-decker ships without forecastles. The "Merveilleux" was launched on 11 November 1691 and completed in April 1692. She was initially armed with 90 guns, comprising twenty-eight 36-pounders on the lower  deck, twenty-eight 18-pounders on the middle deck, twenty-four 12-pounders on the upper deck, and ten 6-pounders on the quarterdeck. However she was reduced to 80 guns before the end of 1691. The new ship took part in the Battle of Barfleur on 29 May 1692, where she was the flagship of "Lieutenant-Général" Charles-François Davy, Marquis d'Amfreville. Following the battle she and her sister "Foudroyant" put into La Hogue on the east coast of the Cotentin Peninsula where they were among a dozen French ships of the line attacked and burnt by Anglo-Dutch  naval forces on 2 June 1692. A new ship was immediately ordered to be built at Brest and given the same name; this was launched in November 1692. French ship Merveilleux (1691) The Merveilleux was a First Rank ship of the line of the French Royal Navy, the second vessel in the two-ship "Foudroyant" Class. This ship was ordered in February 1691 to be built - like her sister - at Brest Dockyard, and on 13 May 1691 she was allotted the name "Merveilleux". The designer and builder of both ships was Blaise Pangalo. They were three-decker ships without forecastles