French ship Montebello (1815)

Montebello was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. She belonged to the Pluton subclass, or petit modèle.[1]

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Montebello and French ship Duquesne.
Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Montebello (1815), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name: Montebello
Namesake: Battle of Montebello
Builder: Venice [1]
Laid down: December 1810 [1] [2][3]
Fate: Captured by Austria at the fall of Venice in on 20 April 1814. [1][2]
Austria
Name: Cesare [1][2]
Launched: 7 November 1815 [1] [3]
Out of service: 1816[3]
Stricken: shortly after 1824; before 1835 [1]
General characteristics [4]
Class and type: Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement:
  • 2,966 tonnes
  • 5,260 tonnes fully loaded
Length: 72 metres total length [1]
Beam: 16.40 metres total [1]
Draught: 7.26 metres (23.8 ft) (22 pied)
Propulsion: Up to 2,485 m2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails
Armament:
Armour: Timber

Career

Montebello, 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. Started as Duquesne and renamed soon afterwards, she was built in Venice under supervision of engineers Jean Tupinier and Jean Dumonteil following plans by Sané.[1]

She might have been launched in November 1813 and used as a floating battery in the defence of Venice. [2]

Still under construction, 22/24 completed, [1][3] Montebello was surrendered to Austria at the fall of Venice. The Austrian completed the construction and commissioned her in the Austrian Navy as Cesare. [1]

In 1816, she was found to have rotten timber. A commission examined her in 1820. She still existed in 1824.[3]

Fate

Cesare was eventually broken up between 1824[3] and before 1835. [1]

Legacy

A detailed 1/20th model of Montebello is on display at the Museo Storico Navale. [1]

Sources and references

Notes

    References

    1. Demerliac (2004), p. 81, n°575.
    2. Roche (2005), p. 163.
    3. Winfield & Roberts (2015), p. 1819.
    4. 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.

    Bibliography

    • 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.
    • Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922. (1671-1870)
    • Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S (2015). French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786 - 1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 9781848322042.
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