1⁄40th scale model of Rivoli fitted with seacamels.
History
France
Name	Rivoli
Namesake	Battle of Rivoli
Builder	Venice
Laid down	1807
Launched	6 September 1810
Captured	22 February 1812
United Kingdom
Name	Rivoli
Acquired	Captured from the French on 22 February 1812
Fate	Broken up 1819
General characteristics
Class and type	Seventy-four Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement	1,630 tonnes
Length	52 m (171 ft)
Beam	14 m (46 ft)
Draught	7 m (23 ft)
Complement	3 officers + 690 men
Armament	74 guns: 28 × 36-pounder long guns 30 × 18-pounder long guns 14 × 8-pounder long guns 10 × 36-pounder carronades[1]

Rivoli was a Téméraire-class ship of the line of the French Navy. Rivoli was built in the Arsenal of Venice, whose harbour was too shallow for a 74-gun to exit. To allow her to depart, she was fitted with seacamels.^{[note 1]}

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.^[2]

The Royal Navy subsequently recommissioned her as HMS Rivoli. On 30 May 1815, under Captain Edward Stirling Dickson, she captured the frigate Melpomène off Naples. The ship was broken up in 1819.^[3]

Notes

Citations

References

• HMS Rivoli Archived 2012-02-12 at the Wayback Machine
• Troude, Onésime-Joachim (1867). Batailles navales de la France. Vol. 4. Challamel ainé.
• Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S. (2015). French warships in the age of sail, 1786-1861. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-184832-204-2.

External links

• Media related to Rivoli (ship, 1810) at Wikimedia Commons

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