French ship Rivoli (1810)
Rivoli was a Téméraire-class ship of the line of the French Navy.
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| Name: | Rivoli |
| Namesake: | Battle of Rivoli |
| Builder: | Venice |
| Laid down: | 1807 |
| Launched: | 6 September 1810 |
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| Name: | Rivoli |
| Acquired: | Captured from the French on 22 February 1812 |
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| Class and type: | Seventy-four Téméraire-class ship of the line |
| Displacement: | 1,630 tonnes |
| Length: | 52 m (171 ft) |
| Beam: | 14 m (46 ft) |
| Draught: | 7 m (23 ft) |
| Complement: | 3 officers + 690 men |
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Capture of Rivoli, 22 February 1812
Rivoli was built in Venice, whose harbour was too shallow for a 74-gun to exit. To allow her to depart, she was fitted with seacamels.[note 1]
On her maiden journey, under Jean-Baptiste Barré, the British 74-gun third-rate HMS Victorious intercepted her on 22 February 1812. Her crew was inexperienced, and in the ensuing Battle of Pirano, the British captured Rivoli after some 400 men of her crew of over 800 were killed or wounded.[2]
The Royal Navy subsequently recommissioned her as HMS Rivoli. On 30 May 1815, under Captain Edward Stirling Dickson, she captured the frigate Melpomène off Naples.
Notes, citations, and references
Notes
- Rivoli and Mont Saint-Bernard were the only two French ships of the line to use this system.
Citations
- Troude, op. cit., p. 157
- "No. 16600". The London Gazette. 5 May 1812. pp. 851–852.
References
- HMS Rivoli
- Troude, Onésime-Joachim (1867). Batailles navales de la France. 4. Challamel ainé. pp. 152–153.
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