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San Lorenzo Zustinian class ship of the line
Class overview
Name: San Lorenzo Zustinian
Builders: Arsenal of Venice
Operators: Republic of Venice Venetian Navy
Preceded by: Giove Fulminante-class
Succeeded by: Corona-class
In service: 1691 - 1746
Completed: 29
General characteristics
Type: Ship of the line
Length: 39,95-42,38 m (112-122 Venetian feet)
Draft: 5,75 m (16,55 Ven. ft)
Depth: 13,20 m (38 Ven. ft)
Propulsion: Sails
Armament:
  • 70 guns:
  • Gundeck: 28 × 22-pounders
  • Upper gundeck: 28 × 14-pounders
  • Quarterdeck: 12 × 9-pounders
  • Forecastle: 2 × 9-pounders

The San Lorenzo Zustinian-class were a class of at least twentynine 70-gun third rate ships of the line built by the Venetian Arsenale from 1691 to 1746, in three different series with minor changes in the ships' length. It was the most numerous class of ship of the line built in Venice, and the last to see active service in a war against the Ottoman Empire in 1718. All this class' ships were planned before 1720, and the vast majority was launched before the Peace of Passarowitz. The last four vessels were completed to a 70% in 1720s, then stored in the roofed shipbuilding docks of the Arsenale to be finished and launched between 1739 and 1746, a solution that was widely used with the following Leon Trionfante-class.

Ships[]

  • San Lorenzo Zustinian
Ordered: 1690
Launched: 1691
Fate: Broken up, 1712
  • others

Notes[]

  • Even if by contemporary Royal Navy practice these 70-gun ships should be rated as third rates, for the Venetian Navy the San Lorenzo Zustinian-class were first rate vessels. This different classification was never changed for prestige issues.
  • The guns reported as the main armament of this class' ships are the result of a conversion from the Venetian scale, that use the libbra sottile (0,301 kg), to the British one. For the Venetian Navy, those ships had 28 30-pounders guns in the gun deck, 28 20-pounders guns in the upper gun deck and 14 14-pounders guns on the quarterdeck and the forecastle.

See also[]

References[]

  • Guido Ercole, Vascelli e fregate della Serenissima, GMT, Trento, 2011.
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