Inflexible class ship of the line
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| Class overview |
| Name: |
Inflexible |
| Operators: |
Royal Navy |
| Preceded by: |
Worcester-class |
| Succeeded by: |
Crown-class |
| In service: |
7 March 1780 - 1820 |
| Completed: |
4 |
| Lost: |
1 |
| General characteristics |
| Type: |
Ship of the line |
| Length: |
159 ft (48 m) (gundeck)
130 ft 7 1⁄2 in (39.8 m) (keel) |
| Beam: |
44 ft 4 in (13.51 m) |
| Propulsion: |
Sails |
| Armament: |
64 guns:
- Gundeck: 26 × 24 pounders
- Upper gundeck: 26 × 18 pdrs
- Quarterdeck: 10 × 4 pdrs
- Forecastle: 2 × 9 pdrs
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| Notes: |
Ships in class include: Inflexible, Africa, Dictator, Sceptre |
The Inflexible-class ships of the line were a class of four 64-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Thomas Slade. The lines of this class were based heavily on Slade's earlier 74-gun Albion-class.
Ships
- Builder: Barnard, Harwich
- Ordered: 26 February 1777
- Launched: 7 March 1780
- Fate: Broken up, 1820
- Builder: Barnard, Deptford
- Ordered: 11 February 1778
- Launched: 11 April 1781
- Fate: Broken up, 1814
- Builder: Batson, Limehouse
- Ordered: 21 October 1778
- Launched: 6 January 1783
- Fate: Broken up, 1817
- Builder: Randall, Rotherhithe
- Ordered: 16 January 1779
- Launched: 8 June 1781
- Fate: Wrecked, 1799
References
- Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.