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English: New Ships of the British Navy, HMS "Inflexible". Illustration for The Graphic, 19 November 1881. Turrets Upper Deck; After Part Starboard Side; Torpedo Boats Superstructure Stern View Port Quarter Method of Launching the Whitehead Torpedo; Captain's Cabin; Deck Method of Loading the Guns; Conning Tower containing Armour Cross; Engine Room Stoke; Hole Port Bow Scoop Launching Torpedo ...
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.
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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 ...
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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 By that time such muzzle-loading guns were already obsolescent and were being superseded by a new generation of rifled breechloading guns .
Printable version; In other projects ... Inflexible-class ship of the line; A. HMS Africa (1781) D. HMS Dictator (1783) I. HMS Inflexible (1780) S. HMS Sceptre (1781)
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