Magenta-class ironclad

Solférino in Cherbourg, France, c. 1863–1864
Class overview
Name	Magenta class
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	8 boilers 4,019 PS (2,956 kW) (trials)
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
Armament	16 × single 194 mm (7.6 in) smoothbore muzzle-loading guns 34 × single 164.7 mm (6.5 in) rifled muzzle-loading (RML) guns 2 × 225 mm (8.9 in) RML howitzers
Armor	Belt: 120 mm (4.7 in) Battery: 109–120 mm (4.3–4.7 in)

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.^[1]