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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 ...
Inflexible in 1881 A view of Inflexible from broad on her port quarter sometime prior to the 1885 removal of her full sailing rig. Inflexible late in her career while serving as port guard ship at Portsmouth between 1893 and 1897. With a slenderness ratio of 4.6:1 Inflexible was a stable gun platform.
HMS Inflexible about 1909. The Invincible-class ships were the first battlecruisers [Note 1] in the world. The design resembled that of HMS Dreadnought, but sacrificed armour protection and one gun turret from the main battery for a 4-knot (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph) speed advantage.
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 ...
The list of ship launches in 1882 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1882. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
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 ...
The three Stalingrad-class ships, championed by Joseph Stalin, were laid down in the early 1950s, but were cancelled after his death in 1953. [22] However, in the 1970s, the Soviet Union began the construction of a class of very large guided missile cruisers, much larger than any other surface combatant [ N 1 ] built since the Second World War.
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.