| Career (France) | |
|---|---|
| Namesake: | Battle of Magenta |
| Launched: | 19 April 1890 |
| Commissioned: | February 1893 |
| Decommissioned: | 1910 |
| Fate: | Scrapped |
| 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 × 1 340mm/28 Modèle 1881 guns 17 × 1 138mm/45 Modèle 1888 guns 5 × 450 mm torpedo tubes |
| Armour: | Belt: 460 mm Deck: 80 mm Bridge: 150 mm Barbettes: 400 mm |
The Magenta was an ironclad battleship of the French Navy. The ship underwent significant changes during her construction phase including three different sets of main guns and increases in length and width.[1] Like her sister ships she suffered from an over-large unarmoured superstructure that in Magenta's case stretched for 40 feet about the top of her armoured belt.[1] In defence of the superstructure one of the ship's captains reported that it did make the ship notably more habitable than it otherwise would have been[1]