French battleship Magenta (1890)

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Formidable testing a captive balloon in 1890
Career (France) French Navy Ensign
Namesake: Battle of Magenta
Commissioned: February 1893
Decommissioned: 1910
Fate: Scraped
General characteristics
Class and type: Marceau class battleship
Displacement: 10 558 tonnes
Length: 99 metres
Beam: 20 metres
Draught: 8.4 metres
Propulsion: 2 steam engines, 8 boilers, 11 000 shp
Speed: 16 knots
Complement: 651
Armament:

4 x 340mm/28 Modèle 1881 guns in single mountings
17 x 138mm/45 Modèle 1888 guns in single mountings

5x 450 mm torpedo tubes
Armour:

Belt: 460mm
Deck: 80mm
Bridge: 150mm

Barbette: 400mm

The Magenta was an ironclad battleship of the French Navy.