French cruiser Gloire (1935)
Service
- as Gloire15 November 1937 — 19582,193 days of the war
- Name
- Gloire
- Pennant / hull number
- 1935
- Namesake
- Glory
- Builder
- Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde
- Laid down
- 13 November 1933
- Launched
- 28 September 1935
- Commissioned
- 15 November 1937
- Fate
- Scrapped 1958 (1958)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 7,600 long tons (7,722 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 9,120 long tons (9,266 t)
- Length
- 179 m (587.3 ft)
- Beam
- 17.5 m (57.4 ft)
- Draught
- 5.35 m (17.6 ft)
- Speed
- 31 knots (57.4 km/h, 35.7 mph)
- Range
- 7,000 nmi (12,964 km)
- Complement
- 540
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
Gloire was a La Galissonnière-class cruiser in service with the Marine Nationale. She carried the pennant number 1935. The ship was named after Glory. Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde laid her keel on 13 November 1933. Launched on 28 September 1935, she entered service on 15 November 1937.
Eight ships of the class were built. The class followed the French cruiser Émile Bertin and was succeeded by the French cruiser De Grasse (C610).
She displaced 7,600 long tons standard and 9,120 long tons at full load. She measured 179 m (587 ft) long with a beam of 17.5 m (57 ft). Her designed speed was 31 knots, and she carried a complement of 540.
Her main battery was nine 152 mm (6.0 in) guns. Her belt armour was 105 mm (4.1 in) and her deck 38 mm.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in 1958.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2-shaft Parsons single reduction geared turbines
- 4 Indret boilers
- 84000 shp
- Armament
- Initial
- 9 × 152 mm/55 guns (3 × 3)
- 8 × 90 mm AA (4 × 2)
- 8 × 37 mm light AA (4 × 2)
- 12 × 13.2 mm light AA (4 × 3)
- 4 × 550 mm torpedo tubes (2 × 2)
- Vichy refit (1941)
- 9 × 152 mm/55 guns (3 × 3)
- 8 × 90 mm AA (4 × 2)
- 9 × 37 mm light AA (4 × 2, 1 × 1)
- 2 × 25 mm light AA (1 × 2)
- 16 × 13.2 mm light AA (4 × 3, 2 × 2)
- 4 × 550mm (21.7 inch) torpedo tubes (2 × 2)
- Allies refit (1943)
- 9 × 152 mm/55 guns (3 × 3)
- 8 × 90 mm AA (4 × 2)
- 24 × 40 mm AA (4 × 6)
- 16 × 20 mm light AA (1 × 16)
- 4 × 550mm (21.7 inch) torpedo tubes (2 × 2)
- Armour
- Main belt: 105 mm
- End bulkheads: 30 mm
- Sides: 120 mm
- Deck: 38 mm
- Turrets: 100 mm
- Conning tower:95 mm
- Aircraft
- up to 4 GL-832, later 2 Loire 130 flying boats
- 1 catapult
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from French cruiser Gloire (1935) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Marius Bar — Own work — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons