French ship Royal Italien (1812)
Royal Italien was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
 Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Royal Italien (1812), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris. | |
| History | |
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| Name | Royal Italien |
| Builder | Venice[1] |
| Laid down | January 1807 [1] |
| Launched | 15 August 1812[1] |
| Commissioned | October 1812[1] |
| Decommissioned | 1838 [1] |
| Fate | Broken up 1838 |
| 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 |
Career
Royal Italien, or Reale Italiano, 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. She was built in Venice under supervision of engineers Fonda and Andrea Salvini following plans by Sané.[1]
Royal Italien was surrendered to Austria at the fall of Venice, and commissioned in the Austrian Navy as Reale Italiano. In 1825, she was razéed into a frigate. She was eventually broken up in 1838.[1]
Citations
- Demerliac, p.81, no 572
- 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
- Demerliac, Alain (2004). La Marine du Consulat et du Premier Empire: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1800 à 1815 (in French). Éditions Ancre. p. 81. ISBN 2-903179-30-1.
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