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 Gloire anchored, 1869
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| History | |
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 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 and type | Gloire-class ironclad |
| Displacement | 5,618 t (5,529 long 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) |
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| Sail plan | Barquentine rigged |
| Speed | 13 knots (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 |
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The French ironclad Gloire ([ɡlwaʁ], "Glory") was the first ocean-going ironclad, launched in 1859. She was developed after the Crimean War,[1] in response to new developments of naval gun technology, especially the Paixhans guns and rifled guns, which used explosive shells with increased destructive power against wooden ships. Her design was also influenced by the Anglo-French development of ironclad floating batteries to bombard Russian forts during the same war.
- ^ The Battle of Sinop at the start of the war convinced the world's naval powers that wooden warships could not withstand the new weapons.