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HMS Inflexible

Played by AgitoAceXIII

Basic Information

  • A Victorian-era ironclad battleship

  • Basic Info

    • Name: HMS Inflexible
    • Gender: Female
    • Played by: AgitoAceXIII
    • Personality: To be determined

  • Physical Stats

    • Age: Old as f— (see ship info)
    • Race: Shipgirl
    • Class: Battleship
    • Alignment: Royal Navy
    • Height: Something something I don't know?
    • Complexion: Fair
    • Hair: Silver gray
    • Eyes: Red
    • Handedness: Right-handed

  • Appearance

  • Ship Info

    • Displacement: 11,880 tons full load
    • Length: 344 ft (105 m) overall
    • Beam: 75 ft (23 m)
    • Draught: 26.3 ft (8.0 m)
    • Propulsion: 12 coal-fired boilers, two single-expansion Elder and Co. steam engines
    • Speed: 14.73 knots (27 km/h) @ 6,500 hp
    • Range: "Cross-Atlantic at economical speed."
    • Primary Armament: 4 × 16-inch (406.4 mm) 80-ton muzzle-loading rifles, 2 per turret
    • Secondary Armaments: 6 × 20-pounder breech loaders, replaced in 1885 with BL 4-inch (100 mm) guns, and replaced in 1897 with QF 4.7-inch (120-mm) guns, 17 × machine guns
    • Torpedoes: 4 × 14-in (360 mm) torpedo tubes (two submerged bow tubes, two on carriages)
    • Armor (Belt): 24-in (610 mm) waterline belt + 17-in (432 mm) teak
    • Armor (Deck): 3-in (76 mm) deck
    • Armor (Citadel): 20-in (508 mm) citadel (reducing to 16 inches) + 21-in (533 mm) teak
    • Armor (Turrets): 17-in (432 mm) front, 16-inch back, turrets
    • Armor (Bulkheads): 22-in bulkheads, reducing to 14 inches (360 mm)
    • Laid Down: February 24, 1874
    • Launched: April 27, 1876
    • Commissioned: July 5, 1881
    • Fate: Sold for scrap in 1903
    • Builder: Portsmouth Dockyard

  • The Actual Ship

    HMS Inflexible with the pole masts fitted in 1885, replacing the original full sailing rig Inflexible, 1885 HMS Inflexible with the pole masts fitted in 1885, replacing the original full sailing rig Ship diagrams Inflexible Ship diagrams The port turret of Inflexible Inflexible The port turret of Inflexible A port side view of the Inflexible, before the 1885 removal of her sailing rigs. Inflexible A port side view of the Inflexible, before the 1885 removal of her sailing rigs. A stern view of the Inflexible in 1896. Inflexible, 1896 A stern view of the Inflexible in 1896.