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    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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    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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    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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    role in the 1877 design of the innovative 11,880-long-ton (12,070 t) HMS Inflexible, which was notable for being the first major warship to depend in part...
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