 Magenta in port
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| Class overview | |
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| Name | Magenta |
| Operators |
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| Preceded by | San Giovanni |
| Succeeded by | Etna |
| Completed | 1 |
| History | |
| Laid down | 1859 |
| Launched | 18 July 1862 |
| Completed | 1863 |
| Fate | Broken up, 1875 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Screw corvette |
| Displacement | 2,669 long tons (2,712 t) |
| Length | 67.1 m (220 ft 2 in) loa |
| Beam | 12.9 m (42 ft 4 in) |
| Draft | 5.9 m (19 ft 4 in) |
| Installed power |
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| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 308 |
| Armament |
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Magenta was a screw corvette, originally of the Tuscan Navy, which was later incorporated into the Italian Regia Marina during the unification of Italy. The ship was built in the late 1850s and early 1860s; by the time she was completed, Italy had unified and so she only served in the Regia Marina. She made a circumnavigation of the globe, which lasted from 1865 to 1868, making her the first Italian vessel to do so. The voyage included diplomatic missions to China and Japan, along with scientific explorations and surveys. She saw little service thereafter, and was laid up in 1875 and broken up that same year.