French ship Castiglione (1812)

For other ships of the same name, see French ship Castiglione.
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. Retrieved 4 April 2013.

    References

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