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Here is a downloadable scan of an official French Navy drawing of the ocean-going broadside ironclad Gloire 1859.  This French drawing was held by the US Navy Bureau of Construction and Repair and was prepared circa 1860.  The drawing includes the hull body plan.  Gloire was designed by French naval architect Henri Dupuy de Lôme and was the first ocean-going ironclad.
 
The original scan was obtained from the US National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland.
 
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Add to cart and order as if this were a model.  You will be able to download the plans as a *.jpg file after ordering at no cost to you.
 
Notice: these plans may not print at the scale stated on them due to the scanner settings chosen when the plans were originally scanned.