Friday, September 10, 2021

The 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 40 feet about the top of her armoured belt.[1] 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

No comments:

Post a Comment

How did you like the post, leave a comment. I would appreciate hearing from you all. Best wishes from JC's Naval, Maritime and Military News

Pageviews from the past week

Followers - Click & become a follower

Naval. Military, Marine, Aviation News and Photos - Marine, Naval and Military Posts

Our weather

Receive a daily newsletter showing all new posts just by adding your email in the yellow box below:

Labels

Weather

Blog Archive

Labels

Receive emails

https://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/qoyyvf

My Blog List

Search This Blog

Appreciate some followers. How about you? Just select how often you want to receive posts. Thank you