The Eridano was a brigantine of the Navy of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont launched in Genoa in 1841 . The ship named after the constellation Eridanus was taken over by the Regia Marina in the course of the unification of Italy in 1861 and used as a training ship for two years . It remained in reserve from 1864 until it was decommissioned in 1868. The Eridano became known for her longstanding overseas missions.
From the end of 1842 the Eridano operated as part of the Sardo-Piedmontese South America squadron to protect Genoese trade interests from Montevideo in the South Atlantic until 1844 . From there they began in early 1844 a one-year journey in the Pacific , where they Valparaiso , Callao , the Marquesas , Tahiti and Hawaii started off. It reached San Francisco in October 1844 and then drove southeast along the coast to Valparaíso and on back to Montevideo, where it entered in March 1845. At the end of May 1845, she was replaced there by the corvette Aquila and returned to Genoa. In January 1848 the Eridano sailed again to South America, where she stayed until the beginning of 1851. From 1852 she served mainly as a training ship, with the exception of the time of the Crimean War , in which she supported the Piedmontese troops in the Crimea as part of a naval unit in the Black Sea .
Others
The Brigantine Cristoforo Colombo was also built according to the model of the Eridano . In some cases the two brigantines are considered sister ships and therefore a ship class, in other cases not.
literature
Franco Bargoni, Franco Gay, Valerio Manlio Gay: Navi a vela e navi miste italiane . USMM, Rome 2001.
Alessandro Michelini: Storia della marina militare del cessato regno di Sardegna. Botta, Turin 1863. (p. 110)
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