• Royal Navy have been called HMS Inflexible. HMS Inflexible (1776) was a 280-ton sloop-of-war launched in 1776. HMS Inflexible was disassembled at Quebec...
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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...
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    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...
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    postings, to be appointed captain of the newly completed battleship HMS Inflexible. Inflexible had the largest guns and thickest armour of any ship in the navy...
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  • applied force Beardmore Inflexible, a British three-engined all-metal prototype bomber aircraft of the 1920s HMS Inflexible, one of several Royal Navy...
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  • have borne the name HMS Indomitable: HMS Indomitable (1907) was the first battlecruiser in the world, beating sister ship HMS Inflexible by four months. She...
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    1870s, first for turret armor (starting with HMS Inflexible) and then for all armor (starting with HMS Colossus of 1882). The French and German navies...
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    best example is the Battle of the Falkland Islands where Invincible and Inflexible sank the German armoured cruisers SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Gneisenau almost...
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    third-rate Inflexible-class ship of the line designed by John Williams. Her class was a smaller version of the 74-gun ship of the line HMS Albion designed...
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  • HMS Inflexible was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 7 March 1780 at Harwich. In 1783, she fought in the Battle of Cuddalore...
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    battlecruisers HMS Invincible and Inflexible, the armoured cruisers HMS Carnarvon, Cornwall and Kent, the armed merchant cruiser HMS Macedonia and the...
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    Battle of Coronel. The ship rendezvoused with the battlecruisers HMS Inflexible and HMS Invincible later that month and transferred her long-range radio...
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  • HMS Inflexible was a Bulldog-class sloop designed by Sir William Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy. Originally she was ordered as a Driver-class sloop, however...
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    battleship HMS Inflexible launched in 1876 had featured a heavily armored central citadel, with relatively unarmored ends; however, by the era of HMS Dreadnought...
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    role in the 1877 design of the innovative 11,880-long-ton (12,070 t) HMS Inflexible, which was notable for being the first major warship to depend in part...
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    Mediterranean Fleet in April 1880 and commanding officer of the battleship HMS Inflexible in the Mediterranean Fleet in November 1882. He briefly commanded the...
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    the three battlecruisers of the Invincible class: HMS Indomitable, HMS Inflexible and his flagship HMS Invincible. In late May 1916 came the only opportunity...
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    HMS Dreadnought was an ironclad turret ship built for the Royal Navy during the 1870s. Construction was halted less than a year after it began and she...
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    largely intact. HMS Irresistible and HMS Inflexible struck mines and Irresistible was sunk, with most of her surviving crew rescued; Inflexible was badly damaged...
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    adopted by the Royal Navy in 1882 following a fatal electrocution aboard HMS Inflexible, which had an 800-volt circuit. The vessel was fitted with a flying...
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    was turret-mounted. These two ships were built to the same concept as Inflexible - a heavily armoured citadel carrying four heavy guns mounted 'en echelon'...
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  • heaviest guns that could be shipped were the 80 ton 16 inch guns of HMS Inflexible. During this period rapid burning black powder was used as the propellant...
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    south of Kilitbahir Castle on the Gelibolu Peninsula. HMS Ocean HMS Irresistible HMS Inflexible French Battleship Bouvet Naval Operations in Dardanelles...
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    his memory in Guangzhou. A sketch of Ye captured and kept on board HMS Inflexible was made to depict him as a hideous monster. It got broad circulation...
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    During the Battle of the Falkland Islands, Invincible and her sister ship Inflexible sank the armoured cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau almost without loss...
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    A schematic of HMS Inflexible depicting her rectangular citadel in the centre...
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    HMS Ocean was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the British Royal Navy and a member of the Canopus class. Intended for service in Asia, Ocean and her sister...
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    HMS Irresistible—the fourth British Royal Navy ship of the name—was a Formidable-class pre-dreadnought battleship. The Formidable-class ships were developments...
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    leaving the minefields largely intact. The battleship HMS Irresistible and battlecruiser HMS Inflexible both sustained critical damage from mines, although...
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    in the 1870s by Benedetto Brin and followed by the British Navy with HMS Inflexible, which was laid down in 1874 but not commissioned until October 1881...
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