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{{Infobox ship image| Ship image=Magenta Marius Bar 2.jpg | Ship caption=Photograph of Magenta by Marius Bar
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=France | France|naval}} | Ship name=Magenta | Ship namesake=Battle of Magenta | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder= | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched=19 April 1890 | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed= | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned=February 1893 | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned=1910 | Ship maiden voyage= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship identification= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship honors= | Ship captured= | Ship fate=Scrapped | Ship status= | Ship notes= | Ship badge=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Marceau|ironclad}} | Ship displacement=10,558 tonnes | 99|m|abbr=on}} | 20|m|abbr=on}} | Ship height= | 8.4|m|abbr=on}} | Ship draft= | Ship power= | 11,000|shp|kW|abbr=on}} | Ship sail plan= | 16|kn}} | Ship range= | Ship endurance= | Ship complement=651 | Ship armament=*4 × 1 - 340mm/28 Modèle 1881 guns- 17 × 1 - 138mm/30 Modèle 1884 guns
- 6 × single {{convert|65|mm|in|abbr=on|1}} Mle 1891 guns
- 18 × 1 - 47/40 guns
- 5 × {{convert|450|mm|in|abbr=on}} torpedo tubes
| 460|mm|in|abbr=on|0}}- Deck: {{convert|80|mm|in|abbr=on|0}}
- Bridge: {{convert|150|mm|in|abbr=on|0}}
- Barbettes: {{convert|400|mm|in|abbr=on|0}}
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}} | The French ironclad Magenta was an ironclad battleship of the French Navy. The ship underwent significant changes during her construction phase including three different sets of main guns and increases in length and width.[1] Like her sister ships she suffered from an over-large unarmoured superstructure that in Magenta{{'}}s case stretched for {{convert|40|ft|m}} about the top of her armoured belt. In defence of the superstructure one of the ship's captains reported that it did make the ship notably more habitable than it otherwise would have been[1] References1. ^1 {{cite book |title=Geoffrey Regan's Book of Naval Blunders |last=Regan |first=Geoffrey |authorlink=Geoffrey Regan| year=2001 |publisher=André Deutsch |isbn=978-0-233-99978-4 |pages=43–44}}
{{Marceau class battleship}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Magenta (1890)}} 2 : 1890 ships|Marceau-class ironclads |