French ship Montebello (1815)

For other ships of the same name, see French ship Montebello and French ship Duquesne.
Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Montebello (1815), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name: Montebello
Namesake: Battle of Montebello
Builder: Venice[1]
Laid down: December 1810 [1]
Launched: 7 November 1815[1]
Decommissioned: Circa 1835 [1]
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

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

Career

Montebello, was one of the ships built in the various shipyards captured by the First French Empire in Holland and Italy in a crash programme to replenish the ranks of the French Navy. Started as Duquesne and renamed soon afterwards, she was built in Venice under supervision of engineers Jean Tupinier and Jean Dumonteil following plans by Sané.[1]

Still under construction, Montebello was surrendered to Austria at the fall of Venice, and commissioned in the Austrian Navy as Cesare. She was eventually broken up around 1835. [1]

A detailed model of Montebello is on display at the Museo Storico Navale. [1]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

    Citations

    1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Demerliac, p.81, no 575
    2. ↑ Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr. Retrieved 4 April 2013.

    References

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