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Italian Corvette Principessa Clotilde
was a screw corvette of the Italian (Royal Navy) built in the 1860s. The ship was originally laid down for the Royal Sardinian Navy, but by the time the ship was completed, Italy had unified, and so she entered service with the . Design was long, and she had a beam of and a draft of . She displaced normally and up to at full load. She had a wooden hull that was sheathed with copper to protect the wooden timbers from shipworm and biofouling. The ship had a crew of 345 officers and enlisted men. proved to be a very seaworthy vessel. The ship was propelled by a single marine steam engine that drove a screw propeller. Steam was provided by a single fire-tube boiler that was ducted through a funnel between the fore- and main mast. The propulsion system generated a top speed of from . She carried of coal for her boiler, which allowed to steam for at 9 knots. The ship was fitted with a three-masted square rig to supplement the steam engine on long v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Sardinian Navy
The Royal Sardinian Navy was the naval force of the Kingdom of Sardinia. The fleet was created in 1720 when the Duke of Savoy, Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia, Victor Amadeus II, became the King of Sardinia. Victor Amadeus had acquired the vessels be used to establish the fleet while he was still the Kingdom of Sicily under Savoy, King of Sicily in 1713. The Sardinian Navy saw action in a number of conflicts, including the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars from the 1790s to 1810s, limited actions against the Barbary Coast such as the Battle of Tripoli (1825), Battle of Tripoli in 1825, and the Second Italian War of Independence in 1859. The last war was a major step toward Italian unification, which led to the creation of a united Italian state in 1861. During the fighting in 1860, the Royal Neapolitan Navy defected to Sardinia and placed itself under Sardinian control; in 1861, the navy also absorbed the Royal Sicilian Navy, resulting in the creation of the ''Regia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
