 La Gloire, first ocean-going ironclad warship in history. | | Warship |
 | | Shipyard: | Toulon, France | | Laid down: | April 1858 | | Launched: | 24 November 1859 | | Commissioned: | August 1860 | | Decommissioned: | 1879 | | Fate: | Scrapped in 1883 | | General Characteristics | | Displacement: | 5,630 tonnes | | Dimensions: | 256 ft × 56 ft × 28 ft
(77.8 m × 17 m x 8.4 m) | | Armament: | 36 × 6.4 in (163 mm) rifled muzzle-loaders model (1858/60) | Armament
(after 1866): | 8 × 9.4in (239 mm) and BL model 1864,
6 × 7.6in (193 mm) BL model 1866 | | Armour: | 4 1/3 to 4 2/3 inches (110 to 119 mm) iron plates | | Propulsion: | Sail and single shaft HRCR (horizontal return), 2,500 hp (1.9MW) steam engine = 13 kts | | Boilers: | 8 oval boilers | | Coal capacity: | 665 tons | | Complement: | 570 | The French Navy's La Gloire ("Glory") was the first ocean-going ironclad battleship in history. Ironclad warships, frequently shortened to just ironclads, were ships sheathed with thick iron plates for protection. ...
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Location within France Coat of Arms of Toulon Toulon (Tolon in Provençal) is a city in southern France and a large military harbor on the Mediterranean coast, with a major French naval base. ...
1858 (MDCCCLVIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
November 24 is the 328th day (329th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1859 is a common year starting on Saturday. ...
1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ...
1879 (MDCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
1883 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
The French Navy (Marine Nationale) is the maritime arm of the French military and is the largest Western European navy in terms of number of active-duty vessels. ...
Ironclad warships, frequently shortened to just ironclads, were ships sheathed with thick iron plates for protection. ...
HMS Victory in 1884 Battleship was the name given to the most powerfully gun-armed and most heavily armored warships between the 15th and 20th Centuries. ...
She was launched in 1859 following the Crimean War, in response to new developments in naval gun technology, especially the Paixhans guns and rifled guns, which used explosive shells with destructive power against wooden boats. She also followed the development of the ironclad floating batteries built by the British and French for the Bombardment of Russian forts during the Crimean War. She was designed by the French naval architect Dupuy de Lôme. 1859 is a common year starting on Saturday. ...
Combatants United Kingdom, France, Ottoman Empire, Sardinia Imperial Russia Strength 250,000 British 400,000 French 10,000 Sardinian 1,200,000 Russian Casualties 17,500 British 30,000 French 2,050 Sardinian killed and wounded 256,000 killed and wounded The Crimean War lasted from 28 March 1854 until...
Henri-Joseph Paixhans was a French artillery officer of the beginning of the 19th century. ...
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Stanislas Charles Dupuy de Lôme (1817-1885) Stanislas Charles Dupuy de Lôme (1816-1885) was a French naval architect of the 19th century, and arguably Frances greatest naval architect ever. ...
A 5,630-ton broadside battleship cut down by one deck in order to save weight, she used massive iron plates sheathed over a wooden hull structure. She was built at Toulon, France. Location within France Coat of Arms of Toulon Toulon (Tolon in Provençal) is a city in southern France and a large military harbor on the Mediterranean coast, with a major French naval base. ...
La Gloire initiated the obsolescence of traditional non-armoured wooden ships-of-the-line, and all major navies had no choice but to build ironclads of their own. The word had it that the Gloire fighting against conventional ships of the time would be comparable to "a wolf breaking havoc amongst sheep".
However La Gloire was soon herself rendered obsolete by the launching in 1860 of the British HMS Warrior, the worlds first iron hulled warship. 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ...
HMS Warrior (1860) (also known as Vernon III and Oil Fuel Hulk C77) was the worlds first ocean-going iron-hulled armoured battleship. ...
La Gloire had two sister ships: Invincible and Normandie, both commissioned in 1862. 1862 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
Reference "Steam, Steel and Shellfire. The steam warship 1815-1905" Conway's History of the ship ISBN 0785814132 |
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