French ship Castiglione (1812)

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Castiglione (1812), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name: Castiglione
Namesake: Battle of Castiglione
Builder: Venice[1]
Laid down: 1810 [1]
Launched: 2 August 1812 [1]
Decommissioned: 20 April 1814 [1]
Fate: Burnt September 1814
General characteristics [2]
Class and type: Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement:
  • 2,966 tonnes
  • 5,260 tonnes fully loaded
Length: 55.87 metres (183.3 ft) (172 pied)
Beam: 14.90 metres (48 ft 11 in)
Draught: 7.26 metres (23.8 ft) (22 pied)
Propulsion: Up to 2,485 m2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails
Armament:
Armour: Timber

Castiglione was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

Career

Ordered on 4 January 1807, Castiglione was one of the ships built in the various shipyards that the First French Empire captured in Holland and Italy. The Empire used the shipyards in a crash programme to rebuild the French Navy.

The French surrendered Castiglione to Austria at the fall of Venice on 20 April 1814. An accidental fire on 14 September destroyed her.[1]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

    Citations

    1. 1 2 3 4 5 Roche, vol.1, p.101
    2. ↑ Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III: classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr. Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2013.

    References

    • Levot, Prosper (1866). Les gloires maritimes de la France: notices biographiques sur les plus célèbres marins (in French). Bertrand.
    • Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 29. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
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