Magenta-class ironclad
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Magenta class |
| Builders | |
| Operators | French Navy |
| Preceded by | Couronne |
| Succeeded by | Provence class |
| Built | 1859–1863 |
| In commission | 1862–1882 |
| Completed | 2 |
| Lost | 1 |
| Scrapped | 1 |
| General characteristics (as completed) | |
| Type | Broadside ironclad |
| Displacement | 6,796 or 6,965 t (6,689 or 6,855 long tons) |
| Length | 85.51 or 88.6 m (280 ft 7 in or 290 ft 8 in) |
| Beam | 17.34 m (56 ft 11 in) |
| Draft | 8.44 m (27 ft 8 in) |
| Installed power | |
| Propulsion | 1 shaft, 1 horizontal-return connecting rod-steam engine |
| Sail plan | Barquentine-rig |
| Speed | 12.88 knots (23.85 km/h; 14.82 mph) (trials) |
| Range | 1,840 nautical miles (3,410 km; 2,120 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 674 |
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The Magenta class consisted of two broadside ironclads built for the French Navy (Marine nationale) in the early 1860s. They were the only ironclad two-deckers ever built, and the first ironclads to feature a naval ram.