Marceau-class ironclad

Class overview
Magenta in her early configuration
Name:	Marceau class
Operators:	French Navy
Preceded by:	Amiral Baudin class
Succeeded by:	Charles Martel class (cancelled 1886) Brennus (1891)
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:	4 × single 340mm/28 Modèle 1881 guns 17 × single 138mm/45 Modèle 1888 guns 5 × 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes
Armour:	Belt: 460 mm (18 in) Deck: 80 mm (3.1 in) Bridge: 150 mm (5.9 in) Barbettes: 400 mm (16 in)

The Marceau class was class of ironclad battleships of the French Navy. They were the last barbette ships built in France.

Ships in class

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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Marceau-class ironclads

Marceau Neptune Magenta

Preceded by: Hoche Followed by: Brennus

List of battleships of France

French ironclads

Broadside ironclads	Gloire Couronne^S Magenta Provence Belliqueuse^S

Central battery ironclads	Alma Océan Friedland^S La Galissonnière Richelieu^S Colbert Redoutable^S Dévastation

Barbette ironclads	Amiral Duperré^S Amiral Baudin Hoche^S Marceau Charles Martel^X

Casemate ironclads	Rochambeau^S

Monitor	Onondaga^S

Floating batteries	Dévastation Palestro Arrogante Embuscade

S Single ship of class X Cancelled

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