San Carlo Borromeo-class Ship Of The Line
The ''San Carlo Borromeo''-class ships of the line were a class of two 66-gun third rates built by the Venetian Arsenal from 1750 to 1793. Design The ''San Carlo Borromeo''-class ships had a deck length of , a keel length of , and were wide. Being built to hold 66 guns, by Venetian standards were considered ''Vascelli di Primo Rango'', or first rate ship of the line. By contemporary Royal Navy standards, though, this number would make them third rate ships of the line. The namesake ship of the class, the ''San Carlo Borromeo'', originally was armed with 28 40-pounds guns on the lower gundeck, 26 20-pounds guns on the upper one and 12 14-pounds guns on the quarterdeck. In 1750 this gave a broadside of 904 Venetian pounds, or . On the ''Vulcano'', launched in 1793, of the 66 guns 26 were 40-pounds cannons, 28 were 30-pounds cannons, and 12 were 14-pounds cannons, located on the lower, upper, and quarterdecks, respectively. This gave a broadside weight of 1024 Venetian pounds, e ...
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Arsenal Of Venice
The Venetian Arsenal () is a complex of former shipyards and Armory (military), armories clustered together in the city of Venice in northern Italy. Owned by the state, the Arsenal was responsible for the bulk of the Republic of Venice, Venetian Republic's Venetian navy, naval power from the Late Middle Ages to the early modern period. It was "one of the earliest large-scale industrial enterprises in history". Overview Construction of the Arsenal began around 1104, during Venice's Republic of Venice, republican era. It became the largest industrial complex in Europe before the Industrial Revolution, spanning an area of about , or about 15 percent of Venice.Giove, S., Rosato, P. & Breil, M.A multicriteria approach for the evaluation of the sustainability of re-use of historic buildings in Venice" ''Sustainability indicators and environmental valuation paper - Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.'' October 2008. Accessed 30 January 2010. Surrounded by a defensive wall, rampart, laborer ...
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