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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 Royal Navy to oppose the perceived growing threat from the Italian Regia Marina in the Mediterranean .
HMS Inflexible was one of three Invincible-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy before World War I and had an active career during the war. She tried to hunt down the German battlecruiser SMS Goeben and the light cruiser SMS Breslau in the Mediterranean Sea when war broke out and she and her sister ship Invincible sank the German armoured cruisers SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Gneisenau ...
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 (mined and damaged on March 18) Pre-dreadnought battleships. Agamemnon; Albion; Canopus; Cornwallis; Exmouth; Glory; Goliath (torpedoed and sunk on May 13 at Cape Helles, 570 men killed) Hibernia; Implacable; Irresistible (mined and sunk on March 18, 150 men killed) London; Lord Nelson; Magnificent; Majestic (torpedoed and sunk on ...
Seymour became Commander-in-Chief, China Station, with his flag in the battleship HMS Centurion, on 18 February 1898. [10] In early 1900 the Boxers, a rural mass movement, decided to rid China of Western influence and in June 1900 they advanced on Peking, initiating the Boxer Rebellion. The diplomatic legations in Peking requested military support.
The shell penetrated the front of 'Q' turret, blew off the roof and detonated the midships magazines, which blew the ship in half. The explosion possibly ignited 'A' and 'X' magazines. [36] Of her complement, 1026 officers and men were killed, including Rear-Admiral Hood. There were only six survivors picked up by the destroyer Badger. [35]
Invincible and Inflexible fired 513 and 661 twelve-inch shells respectively during the battle, [32] but Inflexible had been hit only three times and Invincible had been hit twenty-two times. Two of her bow compartments were flooded and one hit on her waterline abreast 'P' turret had flooded a coal bunker and temporarily given her a 15° list.
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 ...