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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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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John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (section HMS Inflexible)
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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HMS Condor was the name-ship of the Royal Navy Condor-class gun-ship carrying 3 guns. Designed by Nathaniel Barnaby, the Royal Navy Director of Naval...
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costing only half that of an Audacious-class battleship and a third of HMS Inflexible, but once her drawbacks became obvious they damned her in popular and...
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Ajax class was designed as a shallow-draught version of the preceding Inflexible that was also smaller and cheaper; unfortunately the need, imposed by...
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beams. The third Royal Navy ship to combine turrets and masts was HMS Inflexible of 1876, which carried two turrets on either side of the center-line, allowing...
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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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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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Kéraban the Inflexible (French: Kéraban-le-têtu, 1883) is an adventure novel written by Jules Verne. Jan van Mitten and his valet Bruno (both of Rotterdam...
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built to the same design, and were smaller and less expensive versions of Inflexible. The class is known as the Ajax class because Ajax was laid down first...
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George Wightwick Rendel (section HMS Inflexible)
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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George Tryon (section HMS Raleigh)
June 1893) was a Royal Navy officer who died when his flagship HMS Victoria collided with HMS Camperdown during manoeuvres off Tripoli, Lebanon. Tryon was...
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1882) Le Rayon vert (The Green Ray, 1882) Kéraban-le-têtu (Kéraban the Inflexible, 1883) L'Étoile du sud (The Vanished Diamond, 1884) L'Archipel en feu...
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Michael Strogoff (category 1876 French novels)
the Czar (French: Michel Strogoff) is a novel written by Jules Verne in 1876. Critic Leonard S. Davidow, considers it one of Verne's best books. Davidow...
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Published in English 1883 Media type Print (Hardback) Pages 128 ISBN 1-59224-035-6 OCLC 53822776 Preceded by Godfrey Morgan Followed by Kéraban the Inflexible ...
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adaptations of Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (1874) and Michel Strogoff (1876), which he wrote with Adolphe d'Ennery. In 1867, Verne bought a small boat...
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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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already very powerful, but in February 1874 when the UK started to build HMS Inflexible, armed with 406 mm (16.0 in) guns, Italian admirals called for even...
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published by Hetzel, contains a number of illustrations by Édouard Riou. In 1876, it was republished by George Routledge & Sons as a three volume set titled...
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Amazon (1881) Godfrey Morgan (1882) The Green Ray (1882) Kéraban the Inflexible (1883) The Vanished Diamond (1884) The Archipelago on Fire (1884) Mathias...
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Dreadnought (1875) – mastless turret-ship, sold for breaking 1908 Inflexible (1876) – central citadel turret-ship, sold for breaking 1903 Ajax-class central...
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Amazon (1881) Godfrey Morgan (1882) The Green Ray (1882) Kéraban the Inflexible (1883) The Vanished Diamond (1884) The Archipelago on Fire (1884) Mathias...
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Punta Gruesa, 21 May 1879 Indomptable 1883 Terrible class French Navy Inflexible 1876-04-27 Masted turret ship Royal Navy Invincible 1861-04-04 Gloire class...
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l’affaire J. Verne contre Pont Jest" ("Note for the case J. Verne v. Pont Jest", 1876) "Souvenirs d’enfance et de jeunesse" ("Memories of Childhood and Youth,"...
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Amazon (1881) Godfrey Morgan (1882) The Green Ray (1882) Kéraban the Inflexible (1883) The Vanished Diamond (1884) The Archipelago on Fire (1884) Mathias...
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Amazon (1881) Godfrey Morgan (1882) The Green Ray (1882) Kéraban the Inflexible (1883) The Vanished Diamond (1884) The Archipelago on Fire (1884) Mathias...
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tolerance is the concept of giving carte blanche to the police for the inflexible repression of minor offenses, homeless people, and the disorders associated...
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Amazon (1881) Godfrey Morgan (1882) The Green Ray (1882) Kéraban the Inflexible (1883) The Vanished Diamond (1884) The Archipelago on Fire (1884) Mathias...
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