French ironclad Normandie

Normandie in the foreground
History
France
Name	Normandie
Namesake	Normandy
Ordered	About September 1858
Builder	Arsenal de Cherbourg
Laid down	14 September 1858
Launched	10 March 1860
Commissioned	13 May 1862
Decommissioned	17 June 1871
Stricken	1 August 1871
General characteristics
Class and type	Gloire-class ironclad
Displacement	5,650 t (5,560 long tons)
Length	77.25 m (253 ft 5 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 oval boilers
Propulsion	1 × Shaft 1 × HRCR-steam engine
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
Armament	As built: 36 × 164.7 mm (6.5 in) Mle 1858 rifled muzzle-loading guns After 1868: 6 × 240 mm (9.4 in) Mle 1864 breech-loading guns 2 × 194 mm (7.6 in) Mle 1864 breech-loading guns
Armour	Hull: 120 mm (4.7 in) Conning tower: 100 mm (3.9 in) Deck: 10 mm (0.4 in)

The French ironclad Normandie was the third and last of the three wooden-hulled Gloire-class ironclads built for the French Navy in 1858–62. 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. Normandie was the first ironclad to cross the Atlantic in support of the French intervention in Mexico in 1862. Although the ship was active during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, she saw no action. The unseasoned timber of her hull rotted quickly; she was condemned in 1871 and subsequently scrapped.