French ship Castiglione (1860)

	1/20th scale model of Suffren, lead ship of Castiglione's class, on display at the Musée national de la Marine
History
France
Name	Castiglione
Namesake	Battle of Castiglione
Builder	Toulon
Laid down	October 1835
Launched	4 July 1860
Stricken	11 October 1881
Fate	Scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type	Suffren class ship of the line
Displacement	4 070 tonnes
Length	60.50 m (198.5 ft)
Beam	16.28 m (53.4 ft)
Draught	7.40 m (24.3 ft)
Propulsion	3114 m² of sails
Complement	810 to 846 men
Armament	1824-1839:; 30 × 30-pounder long guns on lower deck; 32 × 30-pounder short guns on middle deck; 24 × 30-pounder carronades and 4 × 18-pounders on upper decks; 1839-1840; 26 × 30-pounder long guns and 4 × 22cm Paixhans guns on lower deck; 32 × 30-pounder short guns on middle deck; 24 × 30-pounder carronades and 4 × 16 cm Paixhans guns on upper decks;
Armour	6.97 cm of timber

The Castiglione was a 90-gun Suffren-class Ship of the line of the French Navy. She was the third in French service named in honour of Battle of Castiglione.

Career

Castiglione took part in the French intervention in Mexico in 1862. She was struck on 11 October 1881 and used as a barracks hulk. She was eventually broken up in 1900.^[1]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

Citations

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Roche, vol.1, p.101

References

Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 101. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
90-guns ships-of-the-line

[roche101-1] Roche, vol.1, p.101

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