French ironclad Magenta (1890)

rdf:langString French ironclad Magenta (1890)

rdf:langString Magenta

rdf:langString *Belt: *Deck: *Conning tower: *Barbettes: *Gun shields:

rdf:langString *8 × fire tube boilers *

rdf:langString *4 × 340mm/28 Modèle 1881 guns *16 × 138mm/30 Modèle 1884 guns *3–7 × Mle 1891 guns *9–18 × 1 - 47/40 guns *3–6 × torpedo tubes

rdf:langString February 1893

rdf:langString France

rdf:langString January 1883

rdf:langString April 1890

rdf:langString lpp

rdf:langString Magenta

rdf:langString *4 × compound steam engines *2 × screw propellers

rdf:langString Magenta was an ironclad of the French Navy built in the 1880s and early 1890s. She was the third and final member of the Marceau class. The Marceau class was based on the earlier Amiral Baudin class of barbette ships, but with smaller guns: four 340 mm (13.4 in) weapons compared to the three 420 mm (16.5 in) guns of the earlier vessels. The ships introduced the lozenge arrangement for their main battery that became common for many French capital ships built in the 1890s. Magenta and her sister ships suffered from a number of problems, including poor stability, insufficient armor protection, and excessive displacement. Magenta, completed in 1893, had a relatively short and uneventful career, which she spent in the Mediterranean Squadron conducting training exercises. New pre-dreadnought battleships began to enter service in the mid-1890s, which displaced the Marceaus to the Reserve Division, where they were used as training ships. Magenta and her sisters were modernized with new water-tube boilers in the early 1900s. She thereafter returned to training duties before being struck from the naval register in either 1908 or 1910. Her ultimate fate is unknown.