Name Rivoli Builder Venice Name Rivoli Launched 6 September 1810 Weight 1,630 tons | Namesake Battle of Rivoli Laid down 1807 Construction started 1807 Length 52 m Draft 7 m | |
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Acquired Captured from the French on 22 February 1812 | ||
The Rivoli was a Téméraire class ship of the line of the French Navy.
Rivoli was built in Venice, whose harbour was too shallow for a 74-gun to exit. To allow her to depart, she was fitted with seacamels.
On her maiden journey, under Jean-Baptiste Barré, the British 74-gun third rate HMS Victorious intercepted her on 22 February 1812. Her crew was inexperienced, and in the ensuing Battle of Pirano, the British captured Rivoli after some 400 men of her crew of over 800 were killed or wounded.
The Royal Navy subsequently recommissioned her as HMS Rivoli. On 30 May 1815, under Captain Edward Stirling Dickson, she destroyed the frigate Melpomène off Naples.
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French ship Rivoli (1810) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA