| Gloire-class ironclad | |
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 Gloire at anchor, 1860 | |
| 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: | 80.39 m (263 ft 9 in) |
| Beam: | 17 m (55 ft 9 in) |
| Draft: | 8.5 m (27 ft 11 in) |
| Installed power: |
2,500 ihp (1,900 kW) 8 oval boilers |
| Propulsion: | 1 shaft, 1 Horizontal return connecting rod-steam engine |
| Sail plan: | Ship-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 breech-loading guns |
| Armor: |
Belt: 120 mm (4.7 in) Battery: 120 mm (4.7 in) Conning tower: 100 mm (3.9 in) |
The Gloire-class ironclads were a group of three armored frigates built for the French Navy in the late 1850s and early 1860s.
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- de Balincourt, Captain; Vincent-Bréchignac, Captain (1974). "The French Navy of Yesterday: Ironclad Frigates, Part I". Akron, OH: F.P.D.S.. pp. 12–15, 18.
- Chesneau, Roger & Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
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- Silverstone, Paul H. (1984). Directory of the World's Capital Ships. New York: Hippocrene Books. ISBN 0-88254-979-0.
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