HMS Inflexible was a Victorian ironclad battleship carrying her main armament in centrally placed turrets. The ship was constructed in the 1870s for the...
24 KB (3,065 words) - 00:08, 17 October 2024
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...
2 KB (242 words) - 03:38, 15 April 2022
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...
77 KB (9,716 words) - 19:50, 6 October 2024
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...
9 KB (922 words) - 17:30, 29 November 2024
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...
6 KB (620 words) - 17:05, 25 June 2024
Ajax class was designed as a shallow-draught version of the preceding Inflexible that was also smaller and cheaper; unfortunately the need, imposed by...
12 KB (1,275 words) - 21:41, 30 October 2024
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...
80 KB (10,821 words) - 23:22, 15 December 2024
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...
12 KB (1,290 words) - 10:20, 16 August 2023
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'...
4 KB (218 words) - 17:06, 15 August 2023
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...
6 KB (502 words) - 13:02, 30 March 2024
des Robinsons, 1882) The Green Ray (Le Rayon vert, 1882) Kéraban the Inflexible (Kéraban-le-têtu, 1883) The Vanished Diamond (L'Étoile du sud, 1884) The...
20 KB (2,147 words) - 05:33, 10 December 2024
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...
3 KB (300 words) - 20:29, 24 October 2024
battleship HMS Inflexible launched in 1876 had featured a heavily armored central citadel, with relatively unarmored ends; however, by the era of HMS Dreadnought...
26 KB (3,486 words) - 07:50, 4 December 2024
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...
10 KB (1,188 words) - 14:42, 21 November 2024
Mettray Penal Colony, a private reformatory near Tours, for six months during 1876. By the age of 19, he caused a scandal by eloping with an actress despite...
3 KB (378 words) - 05:09, 27 November 2024
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...
75 KB (11,219 words) - 09:42, 2 September 2024
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...
72 KB (8,447 words) - 13:08, 19 December 2024
edition, published by Hetzel, contains illustrations by Édouard Riou. In 1876, it was republished by George Routledge & Sons as a three volume set titled...
8 KB (879 words) - 01:00, 12 November 2024
destroying ships which are the targets of his piracy. The same book also features HMS Sword, a small Royal Navy experimental submarine which is sunk after a valiant...
13 KB (1,526 words) - 14:31, 5 December 2024
Amazon (1881) Godfrey Morgan (1882) The Green Ray (1882) Kéraban the Inflexible (1883) The Vanished Diamond (1884) The Archipelago on Fire (1884) Mathias...
13 KB (1,547 words) - 02:32, 17 December 2024
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...
11 KB (1,229 words) - 21:35, 20 November 2024
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 ...
6 KB (675 words) - 20:02, 24 October 2024
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...
15 KB (1,475 words) - 17:14, 15 December 2024
result showed that the gun would be able to penetrate the iron belt of HMS Inflexible at up to 1,800 m. 14-inch belts would be penetrated at all distances...
22 KB (2,863 words) - 12:07, 14 August 2024
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...
27 KB (3,658 words) - 21:01, 21 December 2024
Amazon (1881) Godfrey Morgan (1882) The Green Ray (1882) Kéraban the Inflexible (1883) The Vanished Diamond (1884) The Archipelago on Fire (1884) Mathias...
1 KB (119 words) - 13:28, 5 November 2024
Amazon (1881) Godfrey Morgan (1882) The Green Ray (1882) Kéraban the Inflexible (1883) The Vanished Diamond (1884) The Archipelago on Fire (1884) Mathias...
29 KB (3,263 words) - 04:27, 17 November 2024
Amazon (1881) Godfrey Morgan (1882) The Green Ray (1882) Kéraban the Inflexible (1883) The Vanished Diamond (1884) The Archipelago on Fire (1884) Mathias...
28 KB (3,282 words) - 21:19, 22 December 2024
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,"...
16 KB (1,090 words) - 23:23, 10 July 2024
Amazon (1881) Godfrey Morgan (1882) The Green Ray (1882) Kéraban the Inflexible (1883) The Vanished Diamond (1884) The Archipelago on Fire (1884) Mathias...
4 KB (374 words) - 19:03, 27 October 2024