Gloire-class ironclad

Gloire at anchor, 1869
Class overview
Name	Gloire class
Builders	Arsenal de Toulon (2) Arsenal de Cherbourg (1)
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	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	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	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 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.