French ship Royal Italien (1812)

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
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 m2 (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[edit]

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[edit]

1. ^ a b c d e f g 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[edit]

* 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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