French ironclad Trident

A model of Trident in the Musée national de la Marine, Paris, with her torpedo net deployed
History
France
Name	Trident
Namesake	Trident
Builder	Arsenal de Toulon
Laid down	April 1870
Launched	9 November 1876
Completed	1 November 1878
Renamed	Var, 1904
Stricken	Condemned, 5 April 1900
Fate	Sold for scrap, 1909
General characteristics
Class and type	Colbert-class ironclad
Displacement	8,814 metric tons (8,675 long tons)
Length	102.1 m (335 ft 0 in)
Beam	17.7 m (58 ft 1 in)
Draft	8.58 m (28.1 ft)
Installed power	4,600 ihp (3,400 kW) 8 oval boilers
Propulsion	1 shaft, 1 Horizontal return connecting rod-steam engine
Sail plan	Ship rigged
Speed	14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Range	approximately 3,300 nmi (6,100 km; 3,800 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	774
Armament	8 × single 274 mm (10.8 in) guns 1 × single 240 mm (9.4 in) guns 6 × single 138 mm (5.4 in) guns 4 × 356 mm (14.0 in) torpedo tubes
Armor	Belt: 180–220 mm (7.1–8.7 in) Battery: 160 mm (6.3 in) Deck: 150 mm (5.9 in) Bulkheads: 120 mm (4.7 in)

The French ironclad Trident was the second and last ship of the Colbert-class ironclads 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.