Magenta-class ironclad

The Magenta class consisted of two broadside ironclads built for the French Navy (Marine Navale) in the early 1860s. Designed by Henri Dupuy de Lôme, they were the only ironclad two-deckers ever built, and the first ironclads to feature a naval ram.

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) 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)

Ships
  • Magenta, launched 1861, destroyed by explosion 1875
  • Solférino, launched 1861, struck 1882

Bibliography
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