French ironclad Trident  The French ironclad "Trident" was the second and last ship of the s that were built for the French Navy in the 1870s. The ship was the flagship of the deputy commander of the Mediterranean Squadron for most of her career. She took part in the French occupation of Tunisia, notably shelling and landing troops in Sfax in 1881. "Trident" was reclassified as a training ship in 1894 and condemned in 1900, before she was finally sold for scrap in 1909. The "Colbert"-class ships were designed by Constructor Sabattier as improved versions of the ironclad . As a central battery ironclad, "Trident" had her armament concentrated amidships. Like most ironclads of her era she was equipped with a plough-shaped ram. Her crew numbered 774 officers and men. The metacentric height of the ship was low, a little above . The ship measured overall, with a beam of . "Trident" had a maximum draft of and displaced . "Trident" had a single Wolf three-cylinder horizontal return connecting-rod compound steam engine that drove one propeller. The engine was powered by eight oval boilers and was designed for a capacity of . On sea trials, the engine produced and "Trident" reached . She carried a maximum of of coal which allowed her to steam for approximately at a speed of . "Trident" was ship rigged with three masts and had a sail area around . "Trident" had two guns mounted in barbettes on the upper deck, one gun at the forward corners of the battery, with six additional guns on the battery deck below the barbettes. The side of the upper deck were cut away to improve the ability of the barbette guns to bear fore and aft. One was mounted in the forecastle as a chase gun. The ship's secondary armament consisted of six guns, four forward of the battery and two aft. These latter two guns were replaced in 1878 by another 240-millimeter gun as a stern chaser. The ship also mounted four above-water torpedo tubes. All of the ship's guns could fire both solid shot and explosive shells. The 274-millimeter Modèle 1870 gun was credited with the ability to penetrate a maximum of wrought iron armor while the 240-millmeter Modèle 1870 gun could penetrate of wrought iron armor. At some point the ship received fourteen to eighteen Hotchkiss 5-barrel revolving guns. They fired a shell weighing about to a range of about .