Five ships of the
Royal Navy have been called HMS ''Inflexible''.
* was a 280-ton sloop-of-war launched in 1776. HMS ''Inflexible'' was disassembled at
Quebec City and transported upriver in pieces and reassembled and commissioned 1776 at
Saint-Jean on the upper Richelieu River upon a request of General Carleton. She carried eighteen 12-pounders. She fought at the battle of
Battle of Valcour Island in 1776 under the command of
John Schank. Her fate is unknown.
* was a 64-gun
third-rate launched in 1780. She was used as a storeship from 1793, a
troopship from 1809 and was broken up in 1820.
* was a wooden
screw sloop launched in 1845 and sold in 1864.
* was an
ironclad
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battleship
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The term ''battleship'' came into use in the late 1880s to describe a type of ...
launched in 1876 and sold in 1903.
* was an launched in 1907 and sold for scrapping in 1921.
Battle honours
Ships named ''Inflexible'' have earned the following
battle honours:
*
Lake Champlain, 1776
*
Egypt, 1801
*
New Zealand, 1845−47
*
Crimea, 1854−55
*
China
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, 1856−60
*
Alexandria, 1882
*
Falkland Islands, 1914
*
Dardanelles, 1915
*
Jutland, 1916
See also
*
French ship ''Inflexible''
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