 The French ironclad Jeanne d 'Arc was a wooden @-@ hulled armored corvette built for the French Navy in the late 1860s . She was named for Joan of Arc , a Roman Catholic saint and heroine of the Hundred Years War . Jeanne d 'Arc participated in the Franco @-@ Prussian War of 1870 – 71 and remained in commission afterwards , unlike most of her contemporaries . She was the first ironclad to be built by the French Navy and the first to be armed with a rifled gun . Jeanne d 'Arc was the only ironclad to be built by the French Navy until the 1890s .

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