Neapolitan ship Capri (1810)

History
Scale model of Achille, sister ship of Neapolitan ship Capri (1810), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.
Real MarinaKingdom of the Two Sicilies
Name:	Capri
Builder:	Castellamare di Stabia^[1]
Laid down:	Late 1808^[1]
Launched:	21 August 1810^[1]
Decommissioned:	January 1812
General characteristics
Class and type:	Téméraire class ship of the line
Displacement:	2 966 tonnes 5 260 tonnes fully loaded
Length:	55.87 m (183.3 ft) (172 French feet)
Beam:	14.90 m (48.9 ft) (44' 6)
Draught:	7.26 m (23.8 ft) (22 French feet)
Propulsion:	Up to 2 485 m² of sails
Complement:	678 men
Armament:	74 guns: Lower gundeck: 28 × 36-pounder long guns Upper gundeck: 30 × 24-pounder long guns Forecastle and Quarter deck: 16 × 8-pounder long guns 4 × 36-pounder carronades
Armour:	Timber

The Capri was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the Real Marina of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.

Career

Capri was built by engineers Jean-François Lafosse and Philippe Greslé after plans by Sané. In April 1815, she was seized by the British, but returned to Napoli in December 1815. She remained in service at least until 1821.^[1]

Notes

Citations

1 2 3 4 Demerliac, p.76, no 529

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. 76. ISBN 2-903179-30-1.

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