HMS Inflexible was a Victorian ironclad battleship carrying her main armament in centrally placed turrets. The ship was constructed in the 1870s for the...
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Royal Navy have been called HMS Inflexible. HMS Inflexible (1776) was a 280-ton sloop-of-war launched in 1776. HMS Inflexible was disassembled at Quebec...
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John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (section HMS Inflexible)
postings, to be appointed captain of the newly completed battleship HMS Inflexible. Inflexible had the largest guns and thickest armour of any ship in the navy...
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HMS Condor was the name-ship of the Royal Navy Condor-class gun-ship carrying 3 guns. Designed by Nathaniel Barnaby, the Royal Navy Director of Naval...
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costing only half that of an Audacious-class battleship and a third of HMS Inflexible, but once her drawbacks became obvious they damned her in popular and...
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Ajax class was designed as a shallow-draught version of the preceding Inflexible that was also smaller and cheaper; unfortunately the need, imposed by...
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beams. The third Royal Navy ship to combine turrets and masts was HMS Inflexible of 1876, which carried two turrets on either side of the center-line, allowing...
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adopted by the Royal Navy in 1882 following a fatal electrocution aboard HMS Inflexible, which had an 800-volt circuit. The vessel was fitted with a flying...
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built to the same design, and were smaller and less expensive versions of Inflexible. The class is known as the Ajax class because Ajax was laid down first...
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was turret-mounted. These two ships were built to the same concept as Inflexible - a heavily armoured citadel carrying four heavy guns mounted 'en echelon'...
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