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Gloire anchored, 1869
History
France
Name	Gloire
Namesake	Glory
Laid down	4 March 1858
Launched	24 November 1859
Completed	August 1860
Stricken	1879
Fate	Scrapped, 1883
General characteristics
Class & type	Gloire-classironclad
Displacement	5,618 t (5,529long tons)
Length	78.22 m (256 ft 8 in)
Beam	17 m (55 ft 9 in)
Draught	8.48 m (27 ft 10 in)
Depth of hold	10.67 m (35 ft 0 in)
Installed power	2,500 ihp (1,900 kW) 8 ovalboilers
Propulsion	1 × Shaft 1 ×HRCR-steam engine
Sail plan	Barquentine rigged
Speed	13knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Range	4,000 km (2,500 mi) at 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph)
Complement	570 officers and enlisted men
Armament	As built: 36 × 164 mm (6.5 in) Mle 1858rifled muzzle-loading guns After 1868: 6 ×Canon de 24 C modèle 1864 (9.4 in)Breech-loading guns 2 ×Canon de 19 C modèle 1864 (7.6 in) Mle 1866 Breech-loading guns
Armour	Hull: 120 mm (4.7 in) Conning tower: 100 mm (3.9 in)

TheFrench ironcladGloire ([ɡlwaʁ], "Glory") was the first ocean-goingironclad, launched in 1859. She was developed after theCrimean War,^[1] in response to new developments of naval gun technology, especially thePaixhans guns andrifled guns, which used explosive shells with increased destructive power against wooden ships. Her design was also influenced by the Anglo-French development of ironcladfloating batteries to bombardRussian forts during the same war.

Gloire was designed by the Frenchnaval architectHenri Dupuy de Lôme as a 5,630-tonbroadside ironclad with a wooden hull. Her 12 cm-thick (4.7 in) armour plates, backed with 43 cm (17 in) of timber, resisted hits by the experimental shooting of the strongest guns of the time (the French 50-pounder and the British 68-pounder) at full charge, at a distance of 20 metres (65 ft).

Her maximum speed was 13.1 knots but other reports suggested no more than 11.75 knots had been attained and that 11 knots was the practical maximum.^[2]

As was common for the era,Gloire was constructed with sails as well as a steam-powered screw. The original rigging was a lightbarquentine rig providing 1,096 sq. m (11,800 sq. ft) of surface area. This was later increased to afull rig providing 2,508 sq. m (27,000 sq. ft) of surface.^[3]

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Gloire was launched at the arsenal of Mourillon,Toulon, on 24 November 1859; and entered service in August 1860. She was eliminated from the French fleet registry in 1879, and scrapped in 1883.

The ship underwent preliminarytrials in June 1860 with official trials on 20-21 of August, where she achieved 13.5 knots. In September of that year, she escorted the imperial yachtAigle [fr] carrying EmperorNapoleon III to Algiers. During a storm on the return voyage, theGloire was the sole escort able to remain with theAigle. On 12 November,Gloire began comparative trials with theAlgésiras, culminating in a trial report on 30 March 1861.^[4]

As the first ocean-going ironclad,Gloire rendered obsolete traditional unarmoured wooden ships-of-the-line, and all major navies soon began to build ironclads of their own.

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  Photograph ofGloire, circa 1860, at theMusée de la Marine, Paris.
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  The launch ofGloire.
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  Gloire sailing, 19th century print.
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  Scale model ofGloire at the Musée de la Marine.
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  Couronne, near sister-ship ofGloire after it was rebuilt.

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