 Gloire at anchor, 1869
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Gloire class |
| Operators |  French Navy |
| Preceded by | None |
| Succeeded by | Couronne |
| Built | 1858–1862 |
| In service | 1860–1879 |
| In commission | 1860–1879 |
| Completed | 3 |
| Scrapped | 3 |
| General characteristics (as completed) | |
| Type | Armored frigate |
| Displacement | 5,618–5,650 t (5,529–5,561 long tons) |
| Length | 77.25–78.22 m (253 ft 5 in – 256 ft 8 in) |
| Beam | 17 m (55 ft 9 in) |
| Draft | 8.48 m (27 ft 10 in) |
| Depth of hold | 10.67 m (35 ft 0 in) |
| Installed power | |
| Propulsion | 1 shaft, 1 HRCR-steam engine |
| Sail plan | Barquentine-rigged |
| Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
| Range | 2,200 nautical miles (4,100 km; 2,500 mi) at 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
| Complement | 570 |
| Armament | 36 × single 164 mm (6.5 in) Mle 1858 muzzle-loading guns |
| Armor |
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The Gloire-class ironclads were a group of three wooden-hulled armored frigates built for the French Navy in the late 1850s and early 1860s. Gloire, the lead ship of the class, was the first ocean-going ironclad warship to be built by any country. The ships of the Gloire class were classified as armoured frigates because they only had a single gun deck and their traditional disposition of guns arrayed along the length of the hull also meant that they were broadside ironclads.
