HMS_Inflexible_(1780)

HMS <i>Inflexible</i> (1780)

HMS Inflexible (1780)

Ship of the line of the Royal Navy

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Inflexible.

HMS Inflexible was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 7 March 1780 at Harwich.[2]

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In 1783, she fought in the Battle of Cuddalore.

Because Inflexible served in the navy's Egyptian campaign (8 March to 8 September 1801), her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal that the Admiralty authorized in 1850 to all surviving claimants.[Note 1]

In 1807 she was present at the Battle of Copenhagen, joining on 7 August off Helsingor (Captain Joshua Rowley Watson).

Inflexible became a storeship in 1793, and was eventually broken up in 1820.[2]

Notes

  1. [N 1]
    A first-class share of the prize money awarded in April 1823 was worth £34 2s 4d; a fifth-class share, that of a seaman, was worth 3s 11½d. The amount was small as the total had to be shared between 79 vessels and the entire army contingent.[3]

Citations

  1. [1]
    "No. 21077". The London Gazette. 15 March 1850. pp. 791–792.
  2. [2]
    Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p181.
  3. [3]
    "No. 17915". The London Gazette. 3 April 1823. p. 633.

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.


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