Magenta-class ironclad
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Magenta class |
| Operators: |
 French Navy |
| Preceded by: | Gloire class |
| Succeeded by: | Provence class |
| Built: | 1859–1862 |
| In commission: | 1861–1875 |
| Completed: | 2 |
| Lost: | 1 |
| Scrapped: | 1 |
| General characteristics As completed | |
| Type: | Broadside ironclad |
| Displacement: | 6,985–7,129 t (6,875–7,016 long tons) (full load) |
| Length: | 85.98 m (282 ft 1 in) |
| Beam: | 17.27 m (56 ft 8 in) |
| Draft: | 8.43–8.69 m (27 ft 8 in–28 ft 6 in) |
| Installed power: | 3,450 ihp (2,570 kW) 9 oval boilers |
| Propulsion: | 1 shaft, 1 Horizontal return connecting rod-steam engine |
| Sail plan: | Barquentine-rig |
| Speed: | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
| Range: | 1,840 nautical miles (3,410 km; 2,120 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement: | 674–706 |
| Armament: | 16 × single 194 mm (7.6 in) 55-pounder smoothbore guns 34 × single 164 mm (6.5 in) Mle 1860 breech-loading guns 2 × 225 mm (8.9 in) howitzers |
| Armor: | Belt: 120 mm (4.7 in) Battery: 109–120 mm (4.3–4.7 in) |
The Magenta-class ironclads were a pair of broadside ironclads built for the French Navy.
The class was designed by Henri Dupuy de Lôme. The ships carried 50 guns in broadside. They were the only ironclad two-deckers ever built, and the first ironclads to feature a naval ram.
Ships
Bibliography
- de Balincourt, Captain; Vincent-Bréchignac, Captain (1974). "The French Navy of Yesterday: Ironclad Frigates, Pt. II". F.P.D.S. Newsletter (Akron, OH: F.P.D.S.) II (3): 23–25.
- Chesneau, Roger & Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
External links
- Plans of the Solférino (large TIF files) from the Atlas du génie maritime of the Service historique de la Défense" ("Historical services of the ministry of Defence")
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