Ironclad warship (Gloire and Warrior)
Buque de guerra acorazado (Gloire y Warrior)
- Date
- 1859-1860 · confidence high
- Place
- Toulon, France (Gloire); Blackwall, London (Warrior)
- Credited to
- Henri Dupuy de Lôme (Gloire, 1859); Isaac Watts and John Scott Russell (HMS Warrior, 1860)
- People
- 👤 Charles Henri Dupuy de Lôme1816–1885👤 Isaac Watts1797–1876👤 John Scott Russell1808–1882
- Field
- Conflict
What it is
Steam-and-screw ships protected by wrought-iron plates, which made every wooden fleet obsolete within a year. The Warrior, with an entirely iron hull, was the largest and fastest warship in the world.
The Gloire (Toulon, 1859) was the first with an armoured wooden hull; the Warrior (London, 1860) the first entirely of iron.
What it led to
- The Anglo-French naval race and, later, a global one
- The Battle of Hampton Roads (Monitor vs Virginia, 1862) and gun turrets
- Rifled steel guns and ever-thicker armour
- State shipyards and ironworks
Built on
- Paixhans gun (naval shell gun)1822-1824
- Screw propeller1836-1839
- Steam hammer1839 (patente 1842)
- Iron-hulled ship1821-1843
- Paixhans's explosive-shell gun (1822)
Made possible
- Armstrong rifled breech-loading gun1855-1859
- USS Monitor (rotating-turret warship)1862
- Case-hardened steel armour (Harvey and Krupp)c. 1890-1893
- Ericsson and Coles's revolving turret
- Armstrong gun
- Pre-dreadnought battleship