Marceau-class ironclad
Magenta in her early configuration | |
Class overview | |
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Name: | Marceau class |
Operators: | French Navy |
Preceded by: | Amiral Baudin class |
Succeeded by: |
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Completed: | 3 |
Lost: | 1 |
Retired: | 2 |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Ironcald |
Displacement: | 10,558 tonnes |
Length: | 99 m (324 ft 10 in) |
Beam: | 20 m (65 ft 7 in) |
Draught: | 8.4 m (27 ft 7 in) |
Propulsion: | 2 steam engines, 8 boilers, 11,000 shp (8,200 kW) |
Speed: | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
Complement: | 651 |
Armament: |
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The Marceau class was class of ironclad battleships of the French Navy. They were the last barbette ships built in France.
Ships in class
- Builder: La Seyne-sur-Mer
- Ordered: 27 December 1880
- Launched: 24 May 1887
- Fate: Broken up in 1922
- Builder: Toulon
- Ordered: 7 October 1880
- Launched:19 April 1890
- Fate: Broken up in 1911
- Builder: Brest
- Ordered: 7 October 1880
- Launched: 7 May 1887
- Fate: Sunk as target ship in 1913
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