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The arrangement also led to the first fatal electrocution on a Royal Navy ship, in 1882, after which the Navy adopted an 80 volt standard for its ships. [4] Sectional drawing of HMS Inflexible. The ship was equipped with many other novelties, including water tanks to dampen the roll, which turned out to be useless.
List of ship launches in 1882; List of ship commissionings in 1882; ... HMS Leander (1882) Lily (ship) Loch Bredan (barque) HMVS Lonsdale; HNoMS Lyn (1882) M. SS M.M ...
HMS Inflexible (1780) was a 64-gun third-rate Inflexible-class ship of the line launched in 1780. She was used as a storeship from 1793, a troopship from 1809 and was broken up in 1820. HMS Inflexible (1845) was a wooden screw sloop launched in 1845 and sold in 1864. HMS Inflexible (1876) was an ironclad battleship launched in 1876 and sold in ...
This is a list of ships of the line of the Royal Navy of England, and later (from 1707) of Great Britain, and the United Kingdom.The list starts from 1660, the year in which the Royal Navy came into being after the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, up until the emergence of the battleship around 1880, as defined by the Admiralty.
Pages in category "Inflexible-class ships of the line" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... HMS Africa (1781) D. HMS Dictator (1783) I.
The original 1920s edition of the H. P. Gibson naval board game Dover Patrol used a number of real RN ship names, but generally attached them to different ship classes. Thus the " Flagships " were H.M.S. Nelson and Drake , and the " Super Dreadnoughts " were H.M.S. Australia , New Zealand , Canada and India , but few of these resembled the ...
After a long design and experimentation period beginning in 1873, HMS Inflexible with its four guns, became the only ship to mount the 16-inch 80-ton gun, in 1880. By that time such muzzle-loading guns were already obsolescent and were being superseded by a new generation of rifled breechloading guns .
Dreadnought (1875) mastless turret-ship — Sold for BU 1908; Inflexible (1876) central citadel turret-ship — Sold for BU 1903; Ajax-class central citadel turret-ships Agamemnon (1879) - BU 1903; Ajax (1880) - Sold for BU 1904; Colossus-class turret-ships Colossus (1882) - Sold for BU 1908; Edinburgh (1882) - BU 1910; Admiral-class mastless ...