Description From the launching of La Gloire to the emergence of modern turreted battleships in 1875, this book offers a fascinating insight into Continental Europe's innovative and powerful ironclads.
In November 1859, the French ironclad La Gloire was launched in Toulon.
She was the world's first seagoing ironclad--a warship built from wood, but whose hull was clad in a protective layer of iron plate.
While history best remembers the ironclads of the Am.
Osprey Publishing (uk) European ironclads 1860-75: the gloire sparks the great ironclad arms race, paperback/angus konstam
