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Gloire 1900

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Amiral Aube			A C de la Loire et Penhoët, St-Nazaire	9.8.1899	9.5.1902	17.4.1904	stricken 4.1922
Condé			Arsenal de Lorient	20.3.1901	12.3.1902	12.8.1904	barrack ship 2.1933
Gloire			Arsenal de Lorient	10.1.1900	27.6.1900	28.4.1904	stricken 1922
Marseillaise			Arsenal de Brest	1.1900	14.7.1900	1903	TS 1925, stricken 1929
Sully			F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne	24.5.1899	4.6.1901	6/1904	wrecked 30.9.1905

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	Amiral Aube: 9534 Condé: 10233 Gloire: 10212 Marsellaise: 9458 Sully: 9856
Displacement full, t
Length, m	139.8 wl
Breadth, m	20.2
Draught, m	7.47 - 7.67 max
No of shafts	3
Machinery	Amiral Aube, Marsellaise, Sully: 3 VTE, 24 Belleville boilers Condé, Gloire: 3 VTE, 28 Niclausse boilers
Power, h. p.	21800
Max speed, kts	21.5
Fuel, t	coal 1565 + oil 80
Endurance, nm(kts)	4000(18)
Armour, mm	Harvey nickel steel; belt: 150 - 60, turrets: 170, turret bases: 140 - 100, secondary turrets: 100, casemates: 85, lower deck: 45 - 40, main deck: 35 - 20, CT: 150
Armament	2 x 1 - 194/40 M1893-96, 8 x 1 - 165/45 M1893-96, 6 x 1 - 100/45 M1893, 18 x 1 - 47/40 M1885, 2 - 450 TT (sub, beam)
Complement	615

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Project history

Large armoured cruisers, development of Gueydon with differing artillery distribution (4 165mm guns in single turrets and 4 in casemates). To the First World War beginning they already became outdated.

Ship protection

Main belt extended from 1.0m below water to 2.3m above and to upper deck in fwd part in 3.3m from the bows, ending by 80mm bulkhead near the stern. Its lower strake was 150mm decreasing to 70mm at lower edge, thickness of this strake decreased to 80mm at ship ends. Upper strake tapered from 120 to 80mm from lower strake to upper edge and was 60mm above the main deck at fwd part. Lower deck had 40mm flat part connecting with lower edge of main belt by 45mm slopes. 35mm flat medium deck connected with top of main belt, reducing to 20mm at ship ends. A space between these decks was divided into many small compartments, filled with coal or stores. Casemates had 40mm rears. 100mm guns were unprotected.

Modernizations

1925, Marseillaise: - 2 x 1 - 194/40; + 2 x 1 - 165/45 M1893-96

Naval service

Sully was wrecked 30.9.1905 in Along Bay in Indo-China as result of navigating accident, salvage attempts failed.

Gloire in 1916-1918 was in Southern Atlantic and in May, 1918 was badly damaged as a result of collision with US s/s City of Athens. Amiral Aube in 1915 passed to Mediterranean sea and in 1916 laid up into reserve. In 1925-1929 Marseillaise was used as gunnery TS, replacing her 194mm guns by 165mm ones. Condé was hulked after 1933 and used as barrack ship. She was converted by Germans to submarine tender and sunk as aircraft target before WWII end.