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|Ship country=[[Kingdom of the Two Sicilies]]
|Ship flag=[[File:Flag of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (1738).svg|25px|Naval Ensign of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies]]
|Ship name=''Vesuvio''
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|Ship builder=[[Castellamare di Stabia]]
|Ship laid down=August 1812
|Ship launched=2 December 1824
|Ship acquired=December 1813
|Ship commissioned=1825
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|Ship honours=*Participated in:
*[[Barbary pirates|Repression of Barbary piracy]]
*[[Sicilian revolution of 1848]]
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|Ship fate=Transferred to the [[Royal Italian Navy]]
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|Ship country=[[Kingdom of Italy]]
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|Ship name=''Vesuvio''
|Ship acquired=17 March 1861
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|Ship fate=Broken up in 1865
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|Ship class={{sclass|Bucentaure|ship of the line}}
|Ship displacement=1800 tonnes
|Ship tons burthen=2190 ([[Builder's Old Measurement|bm]])
|Ship length={{convert|63.3|m|ftin|abbr=on}} 
|Ship beam={{convert|15.3|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
|Ship draught={{convert|7.8|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
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|Ship hold depth={{convert|7.2|m|ftin|abbr=on}} 
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|Ship sail plan=[[Full-rigged ship]]
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|Ship armament=*'''Two Sicilies navy''':
*63 × [[24-pounder long gun]]s
*4 × 80-pounder [[obusier de vaisseau|obusiers de vaisseau]]
*4 × 30-pounder obusiers de vaisseau
*4 × 24-pounder [[carronade]]s
*'''Royal Italian Navy''':
*48 × 24-pounder long guns
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''''' Vesuvio''''' was a [[ship of the line]] of the [[Real Marina (Kingdom of the Two Sicilies)|Real Marina]] of the [[Kingdom of the Two Sicilies]], later acquired as a [[frigate]] by the [[Italian Royal Navy]]. She was initially a [[First French Empire|French]] {{sclass|Bucentaure|ship of the line|4}} whose construction began in August 1812, but the works stalled and the ship was transferred to the [[Kingdom of Naples]] in 1813.

==Construction==
Built between 1812 and 1825 in [[Castellammare di Stabia]]'s shipyard for the Royal Navy of the [[Kingdom of the Two Sicilies]], the ship was originally a French [[ship of the line]] of the {{sclass|Bucentaure|ship of the line|4}}, ceded to the Kingdom of Naples in December 1813.<ref>Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). ''Dictionnaire des Bâtiments de la Flotte de Guerre Française de Colbert à nos Jours''. Groupe Retozel-Maury. {{ISBN|2952591709}} {{in lang|fr}}</ref> She was heavily armed with 87 guns on two covered batteries and on the deck, with two batteries covered and one uncovered: 63 [[smoothbore]] guns of 24 [[Pound (mass)|pound]]s, 4 smoothbore [[Paixhans]] [[howitzer]]s of 80 pounds, 4 smoothbore howitzers of 30 pounds and 16 24-pounder smoothbore [[carronades]].<ref name="liberoricercatore">[http://www.liberoricercatore.it/Storia/navi_borboniche/vascello_vesuvio.htm Libero ''Ricercatore presenta: il naviglio borbonico varato a Castellammare (il vascello Vesuvio - 1824)''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130911141226/http://www.liberoricercatore.it/Storia/navi_borboniche/vascello_vesuvio.htm |date=2013-09-11 }} {{in lang|it}}</ref> The hull was built in wood with copper-coated hull, the ship had three masts for square sails. The ship was the first to be launched by Castellamare's shipyard in the presence of the [[Duke of Calabria]] and [[Prince of Salerno]], heir of the Kingdom.<ref name="liberoricercatore"/>

==Operational history==
In September 1825, just a few months after being launched, ''Vesuvio'' was sent under the command of Captain Giuseppe De Blasi to [[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]] and [[Tangiers]], where she performed a demonstration against the [[Barbary pirates]] in the Mediterranean. The same year the ship transported the new king of the Two Sicilies, [[Francis I of the Two Sicilies|Francis I]], from [[Genoa]] to [[Naples]].<ref>[http://www.xmasgrupsom.com/public/index.php?showtopic=1642 ''BASE Sommergibili Mediterranei - La Marina Borbonica''] by Guglielmo Lepre {{in lang|it}}</ref>

During the next decade, the vessel was used for the transport of troops on the route Naples - [[Palermo]] and training trips for [[officer cadets]].<ref name="liberoricercatore"/>

In March 1834, the ''Vesuvio'' was taken in the yards of Castellammare and undergone a complete [[careening]] and [[caulking]], with the replacement of some plates of copper. The works lasted three months.<ref name="liberoricercatore"/>

On 10 May 1843, 320 members of the crew of the vessel contributed, along with another 2,200 men, to pull in drydock the old vessel ''Capri''.<ref>[http://www.liberoricercatore.it/Storia/navi_borboniche/vascello_capri.htm ''Libero Ricercatore presenta: il naviglio borbonico varato a Castellammare (il vascello Capri - 1810)''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130911141159/http://www.liberoricercatore.it/Storia/navi_borboniche/vascello_capri.htm |date=2013-09-11 }} {{in lang|it}}</ref> On 1 July 1843 the ship, under the command of Brigadier Raffaele De Cosa and carrying the princess [[Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies]], wife of Emperor [[Dom Pedro II of Brazil]], left Naples for [[Rio de Janeiro]] together with the [[frigate]] ''Amalia'', Ship of the line ''Partenope'', the ''Queen Isabella'' [[Frigate]] and a Brazilian Naval Division commanded by Admiral Di Teodoro Beaurepaire.<ref name="liberoricercatore"/><ref name="marinai">[http://www.marinai.it/contatti/fpartenope.pdf Frigate ''Partenope''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110104190059/http://www.marinai.it/contatti/fpartenope.pdf |date=2011-01-04 }} {{in lang|it}}</ref> After crossing the [[equator]] in the night between 17 and 18 August in rough seas conditions, the ships arrived to the Brazilian city on the evening of 3 September.<ref name="liberoricercatore"/> She remained at Rio for almost a month and a half to attend celebrations in honor of Teresa Cristina and stocking up on food and water. The squadron sailed out again later on 15 October for Naples, where they arrived on the evening of 24 December 1843, after 140 days of navigation.<ref name="liberoricercatore"/><ref>[http://www.nobili-napoletani.it/Pucci.htm Famiglia Pucci] {{in lang|it}}</ref> It was the first crossing of the [[South Atlantic]] by a convoy in which observations on the climate of the [[tropics|torrid zone]] were made.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books/about/Corsi_di_osservazioni_meteorologiche_fat.html?id=gAuvQAAACAAJ ''Corsi di osservazioni meteorologiche''] {{in lang|it}}</ref>

In October 1844, having identified a flaw in ''Vesuvio''´s bow, the vessel, instead of being torn down for repairs as usual (as was done in 1834), was put in drydock at the shipyard of Castellammare.<ref name="liberoricercatore"/>

On 28 July 1845, escorted by a naval formation (frigates ''Queen Isabella'', ''Amalia'' and ''Partenope'', corvette ''Cristina'', [[aviso]] ''Delfino''), she carried to Palermo the [[King of Naples]], the counts of [[Caserta]] and [[Trapani]] and their entourage.<ref>[http://www.storiamediterranea.it/public/md1_dir/b1224.pdf ''Diario Siciliano (1831-1840)''] {{in lang|it}}</ref>

In January 1848 ''Vesuvio'', under the command of Captain Giorgio Miloro, shelled Palermo during the suppression of the [[Sicilian revolution of independence of 1848|Sicilian uprising]].<ref name="liberoricercatore"/>

On 14 August 1852 the ship, whose commander was then the Captain Louis Chrétien, was the first naval unit to be brought into the new drydock  of the Arsenal of Naples for refitting.<ref name="liberoricercatore"/> Her armament was slightly reduced to 81 guns.<ref>{{cite book|author-link=Giacinto de' Sivo|last=de' Sivo|first=Giacinto|year=2009|title=Storia delle Due Sicilie 1847-1861|volume=2|publisher=Edizioni Trabant|page=25|isbn=978-8896576113|language=it}}</ref>

The ship, now old and worn, had no role in the events that led to the fall of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and  the [[Unification of Italy]]. After the capture of Naples, on 7 September 1860,<ref name="navyworld">[http://navyworld.narod.ru/Corvette.htm#Vesuvio Корветы и патрульные корабли Италии] {{in lang|ru}}</ref> ''Vesuvio'' was laid up in the city docks, and despite being formally incorporated into the new [[Royal Italian Navy]] on 17 March 1861 (now reclassified as a corvette and with her armament reduced to 48 guns of 80 pounds), it was decided that the conditions in which the aging vessel was found discouraged the idea of her recommissioning.<ref>[http://www.marina.difesa.it/storiacultura/storia/almanacco/Pagine/TUVZ/vesuvio_corvetta.aspx''Marina Militare: corvetta "Vesuvio"''] {{in lang|it}}</ref> The ''Vesuvio'' was eventually written off in 1861 and on 9 June of that year<ref name="navyworld"/> towed to [[Pozzuoli]] by the [[paddle steamer]] ''Tancredi''.<ref name="liberoricercatore"/>

After being sold at a [[public auction]], ''Vesuvio'' was broken up on 3 January 1865.<ref name="liberoricercatore"/>

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