French ship Royal Italien (1812)

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Royal Italien (1812), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
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	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 Forecastle and Quarter deck: 6 × 8-pounder long guns 10 × 36-pounder carronades
Armour	Timber

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

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

1. Demerliac, p.81, no 572
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

• 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.