Venetian ship Adria in Pace explained

Adria in Pace was a first-rank ship of the line of the Venetian navy, serving from 1739 to 1753.

Adria in Pace belonged to the third and final batch of the, representing the largest vessels of the Venetian navy, with some 50m (160feet) total length, a displacement of tons, and armed with 66 cannon (28 × 40-pounders, 28 × 20-pounders, 10 × 14-pounders). Although laid down in 1716, it entered active service only in August 1739, in the meantime being mothballed in the Arsenal of Venice. It was lost on 9 October 1753, when it ran aground on a shoal off Foça (Focchies), on the western coast of Anatolia. Due to the efforts of the rest of her squadron under Giacomo Nani, the entire crew, and even the ship's cannons and much of its equipment were saved.

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