![]() Marceau early in her career
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Name | Marceau |
Namesake | General François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers |
Ordered | October 1880 |
Builder | Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne-sur-Mer |
Laid down | 28 November 1882 |
Launched | 24 May 1887 |
Commissioned | 27 January 1890 |
In service | 14 March 1891 |
Stricken | 1 October 1920 |
Fate | Wrecked, 17 January 1922 |
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Class and type | Marceau-class ironclad |
Displacement | 10,558 long tons (10,727 t) |
Length | 103.62 m (340 ft 0 in) loa |
Beam | 20.23 m (66 ft 4 in) |
Draft | 8.13 m (26 ft 8 in) |
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Propulsion | |
Speed | 16.19 knots (29.98 km/h; 18.63 mph) |
Range | 2,900 nmi (5,400 km; 3,300 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 647 |
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Marceau was an ironclad barbette ship built for the French Navy during the 1880s, the lead ship of her class. She served in the Mediterranean Squadron until 1900, when she was rebuilt and subsequently placed in reserve. She returned to service in 1906 as a torpedo training ship. During World War I, she served in Malta and Corfu as a submarine tender. The old ironclad was sold for scrapping in 1920, and while being towed to Toulon, she ran aground in a gale off Bizerte and became stranded. The wreck remained visible there until the 1930s.