French ship Castiglione (1812)
 Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Castiglione (1812), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
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| History | |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Armour | Timber |
Castiglione was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
Career[edit]
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]
Citations[edit]
- ^ a b c d e Roche, vol.1, p.101
- ^ 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[edit]
- 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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