French ship Castiglione (1812)

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

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

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]

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.