Ron van Maanen
Part of the ironclad barbette battleships of the Marceau-class with as sister ships Magenta and Neptune. The class was preceded by the ships of the Amiral Baudin-class and was to be succeeded by the cancelled Charles Martel-class. Her building at the shipyard in La Seyne-sur-Mer was ordered on 27 December 1880, she was launched on 24 May 1887 and she was finally broken up in 1922. As a battleship was her displacement 10.558 tonnes with the dimensions 99 x 20 x 8,4 metres. The two steam engines and eight boilers supplied 11.000 shp allowing a speed of 16 knots. Her crew numbered 651 men. The armament consisted of 4x1-34cm guns, 17x1-38cm guns and 5x45cm torpedo tubes. The armour consisted of a 46cm thick belt, a 8cm thick deck while the bridge was protected by 15cm thick armour. In the First World war served she as a submarine depot ship.
