Gloire, a 5630-ton broadside ironclad battleship, was built at Toulon, France. When completed in August 1860 as the World's first seagoing armored warship, she seemingly rendered obsolete the unarmored ships-of-the-line that had previously dominated seapower among the larger Western nations. Despite her revolutionary beginnings, Gloire's active service was relatively brief, as she was soon outclassed by newer ironclads and her wooden hull deteriorated relatively swiftly. She was removed from the French Navy's warship list in 1879.