French ironclad Solférino
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Solférino was the second and last ship of the Magenta-class of broadside ironclads built for the French Navy (Marine nationale) in the early 1860s.
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France | |
Name | Solférino |
Namesake | Battle of Solferino |
Builder | Arsenal de Lorient |
Laid down | 24 June 1859 |
Launched | 24 June 1861 |
Commissioned | 25 August 1862 |
Decommissioned | August 1878 |
Fate | Condemned, 21 July 1882 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | Magenta-class ironclad |
Displacement | 6,796 t (6,689 long tons) |
Length | 85.51 m (280 ft 7 in) |
Beam | 17.34 m (56 ft 11 in) |
Draft | 8.44 m (27 ft 8 in) |
Installed power | |
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 |
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These two ironclads were the only two-decked broadside ironclad battleships ever built. They were also the first ships in the world to be equipped with a spur ram.