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1/700 La Gloire Masts 3d printed

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1/700 La Gloire Masts 3d printed
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1/700 La Gloire Masts

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La Gloire was designed by the famous naval architect Dupuy de Lome in the late 1850s, taking on lessons from the Crimean War and the development of new naval guns, each generation of weapons of the period being quite larger and more powerful than their predecessors.
Launched in November 1859 and completed the following year, Gloire was the lead ship in a class of three, though they would all have slight differences in both appearance and performance.
The revolutionary nature of Gloire lied the fact it was the first ocean-going ironclad ever built: armoured batteries weren't unheard of during the Crimean War, but none was self-propelled, much less ocean-going. The ship was basically a wooden-hulled armoured frigate, with 120 mm hull armour and pierced for 44 guns overall: 36 164 mm M.le 1858 rifled muzzle-loaders, six massive 240 mm M.le 1864 breech-loaders, and two 192 mm M.le 1866 breech-loading guns.
Gloire was provided with a steam engine driving a single propeller, to a theoretical top speed of 13 kn; however sources disagree as to her actual top speed, and it is likely in actual sailing conditions never attained above 11 kn. She was also barque-rigged though this was not her original sail plan.
The ship was armoured to withstand the largest naval guns of the time (namely the French 50-pounder and British 68-pounder), however development in ironclad warships and gun technology soon outpaced her. Entering service in 1860, she was phased out by 1879 and scrapped in 1883; from commissioning to retiring, Gloire saw less than 19 years of service, and most of them as a second line unit. Her importance is outlined almost exclusively by her role in history as the ship that sparked the ironclad fever in navies of the world, and for being the theoretical opponent of arguably the most ground-breaking warship of modern times: HMS Warrior.
Gloire is often generally reduced to a sad footnote in history, but two things must be borne in mind: the speed at which innovations and inventions were integrated in new ship designs during the early ironclad age was unheard of, even for modern standards; in less than five years a ship could go from top of the line to third or fourth-rate man-of-war because of stronger or thicker armour, bigger guns, larger shells and charges, and new projectile types. However it must be remembered that for about a year Gloire was the most powerful warship afloat, and would have seemed almost invincible to a wooden-hulled enemy; even after the completion of the Warrior class, Gloire and her sisters still remained very relevant as fighting units for some time, until better armed and armoured ships rendered both her and Warrior old relics in their own time.
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