Name Magenta class Preceded by Gloire class Built 1859–1862 | Operators French Navy Succeeded by Provence class In commission 1861–1875 | |
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The Magenta-class ironclads were a pair of broadside ironclads built for the French Navy.
The class was designed by Henri Dupuy de Lôme. The ships carried 50 guns in broadside. They were the only ironclad two-deckers ever built, and the first ironclads to feature a naval ram.
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