French ship Castiglione (1812)

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

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Castiglione.

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Castiglione (1812), on display at the Musée national 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 m^2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails
Armament:	74 guns: Lower gundeck: 28 × 36-pounder long guns Upper gundeck: 30 × 18-pounder long guns Fc and QD: 6 × 8-pounder long guns 10 × 36-pounder carronades
Armour:	Timber

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. Roche, vol.1, p.101
2. 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

• 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.