HMS Inflexible (1780)

History
UK
Name:	HMS Inflexible
Ordered:	26 February 1777
Builder:	Barnard, Harwich
Laid down:	April 1777
Launched:	7 March 1780
Honours and awards:	Participated in Battle of Cuddalore Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt"[1]
Fate:	Broken up, 1820
General characteristics [2]
Class & type:	Inflexible-class ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1386 (bm)
Length:	159 ft (48 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	44 ft 4 in (13.51 m)
Depth of hold:	18 ft 10 in (5.74 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	Gundeck: 26 × 24-pounder guns Upper gundeck: 26 × 18-pounder guns QD: 10 × 4-pounder guns Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns

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

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 and citations

Notes

1. A first-class share of the prize money awarded in April 1823 was worth £34 2s 4d; a fifth-class share, that of an able 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. The London Gazette: no. 21077. pp. 791–792. 15 March 1850.
2. Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p181.
3. The London Gazette: no. 17915. p. 633. 3 April 1823.

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.