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The Venetian Arsenal (Italian: Arsenale di Venezia) is a complex of former shipyards and armories clustered together in the city of Venice in northern Italy. Owned by the state, the Arsenal was responsible for the bulk of the Venetian Republic's naval power from the Late Middle Ages to the early modern period. It was "one of the earliest large ...
Giving shelter to refugees fleeing Hunnic invaders in the 6th century, Venice grew in the Venetian Lagoon in the northern Adriatic.From the very beginning, it focused on establishing and maintaining maritime trade routes across the Eastern Mediterranean to the Levant and beyond; Venice's commercial and military strength, and continued survival, was founded on the strength of its fleet.
The 70-gun ship of the line Vittoria in the Venetian Arsenal in May 1797, just prior to the fall of the Republic of Venice. This is a list of sailing ships of the Venetian navy . From the Cretan War to the fall of the Republic of Venice in 1797, the Venetian Republic maintained a good number of sailing ships for its navy , which formed the so ...
When Pope Urban II declared the First Crusade in 1095, he also sent envoys to the main Italian maritime republics for naval assistance to the crusading armies. [1] The Republic of Genoa was the first to respond, sending a small squadron east in 1097, which joined with the Byzantine navy in the Crusade's early operations, [2] apparently followed by smaller squadrons and individual ships. [3]
Service history: Fate Giove Fulminante: Venice: 1666–1667: Lead ship, took part in the Morean War: Scrapped at the Arsenal starting on 4 October 1693. Costanza Guerriera: Venice: 1666–1667: Lost in a shipwreck at Rapallo, Palermo, on 4 October 1684. Redentor del Mondo: Venice: 1681–1686: Armed with 68 guns, increased to 70 in 1697.
With 55 years, she holds the record for length of time between being laid down and completed at the Arsenal of Venice. [ 3 ] When finished, Forza had a length of slightly over 49.5 metres (162 ft), a displacement of c. 1800 tons, and armed with 70 cannon, although normally, in peacetime, she only carried 66 (28x40-pounders, 26x20-pounders ...
The Muiron was one of two 18-pounder armed frigates that were building on the stocks in the Arsenal of Venice in November 1796, when Bonaparte took Venice during the Campaign of Italy. [2] The two frigates were launched in August 1797 under the names Carrère and Muiron, and completed during November by the orders of Pierre-Alexandre Forfait.
The Museo Storico Navale is a naval history museum located in the Castello district of Venice, near the Venetian Arsenal. The museum was established by the Regia Marina (the Italian Royal Navy) in 1919. [1] Its collections include items relating to the naval and maritime history of Venice, and it has a large number of ship models and weapons on ...