• Thumbnail for French ironclad Provence
    The French ironclad Provence was the lead ship of her class of 10 armored frigates built for the French Navy (Marine Nationale) during the 1860s. Commissioned...
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    The Provence-class ironclads consisted of 10 ironclad frigates built for the French Navy (Marine Nationale) during the 1860s. Only one of the sister ships...
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    The French ironclad Héroïne was one of 10 Provence-class armored frigates built for the French Navy (Marine Nationale) during the 1860s. She was the only...
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  • France built a series of ironclad warships between the 1850s and 1890s; these began with the Dévastation-class ironclad floating batteries built during...
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  • Thumbnail for French ironclad Flandre
    The French ironclad Flandre was one of ten Provence-class armored frigates built for the French Navy (Marine Nationale) in the 1860s. Commissioned in...
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  • Thumbnail for French ironclad Guyenne
    The French ironclad Guyenne was one of 10 Provence-class armored frigates built for the French Navy (Marine Nationale) during the 1860s. Commissioned in...
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  • Thumbnail for French ironclad Savoie
    The French ironclad Savoie was one of 10 Provence-class armored frigates built for the French Navy (Marine Nationale) during the 1860s. Commissioned in...
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  • Thumbnail for French ironclad Gauloise
    The French ironclad Gauloise was one of 10 Provence-class armored frigates built for the French Navy (Marine Nationale) during the 1860s. Commissioned...
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  • Thumbnail for French ironclad Magnanime
    The French ironclad Magnanime was one of 10 Provence-class armored frigates built for the French Navy (Marine Nationale) during the 1860s. Commissioned...
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  • Thumbnail for French ironclad Couronne
    The French ironclad Couronne ("Crown") was the first iron-hulled ironclad warship built for the French Navy in 1859–1862. She was the first such ship to...
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  • Thumbnail for French ironclad Valeureuse
    The French ironclad Valeureuse was one of 10 Provence-class armored frigates built for the French Navy (Marine Nationale) during the 1860s. Commissioned...
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    warships to explosive or incendiary shells. The first ironclad battleship, Gloire, was launched by the French Navy in November 1859, narrowly preempting the...
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  • Thumbnail for French ironclad Surveillante
    The French ironclad Surveillante was one of 10 Provence-class armored frigates built for the French Navy (Marine Nationale) during the 1860s. Commissioned...
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    very large Italian ironclads along the lines of the French Amiral Baudin class, by the time work on Hoche began, changes in French design philosophy led...
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  • Thumbnail for French ironclad Revanche
    The French ironclad Revanche was one of 10 Provence-class armored frigates built for the French Navy (Marine Nationale) during the 1860s. Commissioned...
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  • Thumbnail for French ironclad Océan
    Océan-class ironclads were designed by Henri Dupuy de Lôme as an improved version of the Provence-class ironclads. The ships were central battery ironclads with...
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  • Thumbnail for French ironclad Normandie
    The French ironclad Normandie was the third and last of the three wooden-hulled Gloire-class ironclads built for the French Navy in 1858–62. The ships...
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  • Thumbnail for French ironclad Marengo
    Océan-class ironclads were designed by Henri Dupuy de Lôme as an improved version of the Provence-class ironclads. The ships were central battery ironclads with...
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  • Thumbnail for French ironclad Suffren
    Océan-class ironclads were designed by Henri Dupuy de Lôme as an improved version of the Provence-class ironclads. The ships were central battery ironclads, with...
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  • Thumbnail for French ironclad Dévastation
    The Dévastation was an Dévastation-class ironclad battleship of the French Navy of central battery (casemate) design. She was used as a school ship for...
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  • Thumbnail for French ironclad Taureau
    Taureau was the first ironclad coastal defence ship (garde-côtes cuirassé) built for the French Navy (Marine Nationale). Launched in 1865, the vessel...
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  • Ironclad: Battle for Blood is a 2014 epic war film directed by Jonathan English. It is the sequel to his 2011 film Ironclad. The film was a critical failure...
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  • Thumbnail for French ironclad Vauban
    the Vauban class of ironclad barbette ships built for the French Navy in the late 1870s and 1880s. Intended for service in the French colonial empire, she...
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  • Thumbnail for Gloire-class ironclad
    The Gloire-class ironclads were a group of three wooden-hulled armored frigates built for the French Navy in the late 1850s and early 1860s. Gloire, the...
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  • Thumbnail for Océan-class ironclad
    Océan-class ironclads were designed by Henri Dupuy de Lôme as an improved version of the Provence-class ironclads. The ships were central battery ironclads with...
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  • Thumbnail for French ironclad Invincible
    The French ironclad Invincible was the second of the three wooden-hulled Gloire-class ironclads built for the French Navy in 1858–1862. The ships of the...
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    Vichy France (French: Régime de Vichy; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State (État français), was the French rump state headed by...
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    CSS Virginia (category Ironclad warships of the Confederate States Navy)
    steam-powered ironclad warship built by the Confederate States Navy during the first year of the American Civil War; she was constructed as a casemate ironclad using...
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    building fleets of capital ships, continuing the program of traditional ironclad warships that had dominated the fleet in the 1860s and 1870s. The other...
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  • Thumbnail for French ironclad Tempête
    Tempête was the lead ship for her class of two ironclad coast-defense ships built for the French Navy (Marine Nationale) in the 1870s. Even though the...
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