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The French cruiser ''Gloire'' was one of five armored cruisers built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She served in the English Channel and the Atlantic as a convoy escort during World War I. ==Design and description== The ''Gloire''-class ships were designed as enlarged and improved versions of the armored cruisers by Emile Bertin. Her crew numbered 612 officers and enlisted men.〔French Armored Cruiser Sully, pp. 324, 326〕 The ship measured overall, with a beam of . ''Gloire'' had a draft of 〔Silverstone, p. 80〕 and displaced .〔Gardiner, p. 305〕 The ship had three vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one propeller shaft. The engines were rated at a total of , using steam provided by 28 Niclausse boilers. She had a designed speed of .〔 She carried up to of coal〔 and could steam for at a speed of .〔 ''Gloire''s main armament consisted of two guns were mounted in single gun turrets fore and aft. Her 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 defence she carried six guns in casemates and eighteen Hotchkiss guns. She was 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「French cruiser Gloire (1900)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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