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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 By that time such muzzle-loading guns were already obsolescent and were being superseded by a new generation of rifled breechloading guns .
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The Colossus-class battleships were British ironclad warships, carrying their main armament in turrets, which served in the Victorian Royal Navy from 1882. They were the first British warships to carry large rifled breech-loading main guns.
Pages in category "1882 ships" The following 78 pages are in this category, out of 78 total. ... HMS Arethusa (1882) French cruiser Aréthuse; RMS Aurania (1882) B.