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Immacolata Concezione in Civitavecchia, 1870
History
Papal States
NameImmacolata Concezione
Namesake Immaculate Conception of Mary
Owner Papal Navy
Builder Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, Blackwall, London
Launched1858
Commissioned1859
Decommissioned1870
In service1859-1870
Honours and
awards
Battle of Ancona, 1865 (Ammunition transport)
FateTransferred to Royal Italian Navy
Kingdom of Italy
NameRN Immacolata Concezione
Operator Regia Marina
Port of registry Civitavecchia
Out of service1871
FateMoved to Toulon, France, by orders of Pope Pius IX
France
NameBateau école Conception Immaculée
Operatorl'École dominicaine de Saint Elme à Arcachon
Port of registry Toulon
Out of service1877–1880
FateProbably scrapped in mid-1880s
General characteristics
Class and type Screw Corvette
Displacement652 t
Length178 ft 8 in (54.46 m)
Height8.1 m (27 ft)
Installed power720 ihp (540 kW)
Propulsion1 steam engine, powered by 1 propeller
Speed10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) approx.
ArmamentUnknown, Probably 8 Armstrong Guns (4 on each side)

Immacolata Concezione was a screw corvette of The Papal Navy, built in the English shipyards of Thames Iron Shipbuilding Co. in  Blackwall. It was delivered to Civitavecchia in 1859.

It was originally intended to be the papal yacht, in view of overseas voyages, and initially a pilgrimage to the  Holy Land which, for reasons related to the political situation of time, was not fulfilled. [1] The ship then served in coastal waters again for the benefit of the papal authorities, and in 1860 transporting materials and ammunition to Ancona. Remarkable was a trip to the Mediterranean with scientific purposes made in 1865, in which father Angelo Secchi carried out some experiments on the transparency of water. [2]

After the  Capture of Rome, the ship was registered in the rolls of the Royal Italian Navy, but left at the disposal of the Pope, who never used it due to voluntary confinement in the Vatican in 1871.  Pius IX ordered his commander  Alessandro Cialdi to bring the ship to  Toulon, where she was laid up until 1877. Later it was sold to an ecclesiastical naval college, the Dominican School of Saint Elme in Arcachon, and used as a School ship for its cadets, until it was sold due to the economic difficulties of the school to the shipowner Gaillard in 1882. The bankruptcy of this placed the ship at the disposal of creditors following a seizure, and no certain information is available on his subsequent career, but it was probably scrapped in the mid-1880s.

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References

  1. ^ "Navi da guerra | Immacolata Concezione 1860 | Corvetta dello Stato Vaticano | Marina Vaticana". Agenziabozzo.it. Retrieved 21 February 2022.
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