Neapolitan ship Gioacchino (1812)

History
Scale model of Achille, sister ship of Neapolitan ship Gioacchino (1812), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.
Real MarinaKingdom of the Two Sicilies
Name:	Gioacchino
Builder:	Castellamare di Stabia^[1]
Laid down:	September 1810^[1]
Launched:	1 August 1812^[1]
Decommissioned:	May 1813^[1]
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 Gioacchino was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the Real Marina of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.

Career

Gioacchino 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, where she served as San Fernando. In May 1820, an accidental fire damaged her beyond repair and she was sold for scrap.^[1]

Notes

Citations

1 2 3 4 5 Demerliac, p.76, no 536

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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