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The ''Gloire''-class cruisers were a group of five armored cruisers built for the French Navy during the first decade of the 20th century. ==Design and description== The ''Gloire''-class ships were designed as enlarged and improved versions of the armored cruisers by the naval architect Emile Bertin. Their crew numbered 612 officers and enlisted men.〔French Armored Cruiser Sully, pp. 324, 326〕 The ships measured overall, with a beam of and a draft of 〔Silverstone, p. 80〕 Designed to displace , they actually displaced .〔Chesneau & Kolesnik, p. 305〕 The ships had three vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one propeller shaft. The engines were rated at a total of , using steam provided by 24 Belleville water-tube boilers, except for ''Condé'' and ''Gloire'', which had 28 Niclausse boilers. They had a designed speed of .〔 They carried up to of coal〔 and could steam for at a speed of .〔 The main armament of the ''Gloire''-class cruisers consisted of two guns mounted in single-gun turrets fore and aft. Their intermediate armament was eight Canon de 164 mm Modèle 1893 guns. Four of these were in single gun turrets on the sides of the ship and the other four were in casemates. For anti-torpedo boat defense, they carried six guns in casemates and eighteen Hotchkiss guns. They were also armed with five torpedo tubes; two of these were submerged and the others were above water.〔 The waterline armored belt of the ''Gloire''-class ships was thick amidships and tapered to towards the bow and stern. Above the main belt was a thinner strake of armor, thick that also tapered to 106 mm at the ends of the ship.〔 The conning tower had armored sides thick. The main gun turrets were protected by 〔 of armor and the intermediate turrets by . The flat part of the lower armored deck was , but increased to as it sloped down to the sides of the ship.〔French Armored Cruiser Sully, p. 326〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gloire-class cruiser」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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