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==Construction and Acceptance== | ==Construction and Acceptance== |
Revision as of 21:48, 24 September 2012
H.M.S. Inflexible (1907) | |
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Pendant Number: | 83 (1914) 75 (Jan 1918) 47 (April, 1918)[1] |
Builder: | John Brown, Clydebank (Ship no. 374)[2] |
Laid down: | 5 Feb, 1906[3] |
Launched: | 26 Jun, 1907[4] |
Commissioned: | Oct, 1908[5] |
Sold: | 1 Dec, 1921[6] |
Fate: | Scrapped |
Construction and Acceptance
When in December 1906 Indomitable's anchor and hawsepipe arrangements seemed problematic in mock-up, Lusitania was fitting out in Clydebank, and it was observed that she had a more elegant plan. It was mimicked for Inflexible and Indomitable.[7]
Construction Costs, pounds Sterling[8] | |
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Hull and fittings | 785,512 |
Propelling and Machinery | 467,976 |
Hydraulics and Air Compressing | 311,696 |
Gun mountings | 12,824 |
Total | 1,578,373 |
The ship's heavy gun mountings were manufactured by Vicker's, whereas her sisters' were by Armstrong's. Inflexible's guns were criticised for "poor training control . The creep is not at all good; the turrets to do not start or stop with precision, the reversal of direction of training is erratic," and a pointed contrast made with the same fittings in the other ships. Moreover, the fire control arrangements were not ready by the time of the gun tests.[9]
Alterations
By November, 1909, Inflexible had her training engines' control machinery altered from the original combination of a two-position lever for direction and a hand-wheel operated "creep valve" to control the speed of traversal to a hand wheel which controlled both functions and made operation much less clumsy and permitted a training rate of 3 degrees per second, albeit requiring three full turns of the wheel to get there.[10]
In 1913, Inflexible was slated as part of the seventeen ship order to receive a director. It was fitted sometime between December, 1915 and the Battle of Jutland.[11]
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Captain Henry H. Torlesse, 1 June, 1908.[12]
- Captain Charles L. Napier, 14 December, 1909.[12]
- Captain Richard F. Phillimore, 21 November, 1911.[12]
- Captain Robert S. Phipps Hornby, 8 May, 1912.[12]
- Captain Arthur N. Loxley, 5 November, 1912.[12]
- Captain Richard F. Phillimore, 28 August, 1914.[13]
- Captain Edward H. F. Heaton-Ellis, 13 April, 1915.[14]
- Captain Bertram S. Thesiger, 21 August, 1917.[15]
- Captain James R. P. Hawksley, November, 1917.[16]
- Captain Ernest W. Denison, 15 March, 1919.[17]
- Captain Arthur Allan Morison Duff,
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 35.
- ↑ Clydebank Battlecruisers. Footers.
- ↑ Clydebank Battlecruisers. p. 15.
- ↑ Clydebank Battlecruisers. p. 16.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 24.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 35.
- ↑ Johnston. p. 16.
- ↑ Johnston. p. 16.
- ↑ Johnston. p. 16.
- ↑ Brooks. Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland, pp. 45-46.
- ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, pp. 9-11.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 Roberts. Battlecruisers. p. 122.
- ↑ The Navy List (December, 1914). p. 337.
- ↑ The Navy List (October, 1915). p. 395a.
- ↑ The Navy List (November, 1916). p. 394r.
- ↑ The Navy List (December, 1918). p. 820.
- ↑ The Navy List (August, 1919). p. 820.
Bibliography
- Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J.J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. London: Ian Allan.
- Admiralty, Technical History Section (1919). The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in H.M. Ships. Vol. 3, Part 23. C.B. 1515 (23) now O.U. 6171/14. At The National Archives. ADM 275/19.
- Parkes, O.B.E., Ass.I.N.A., Dr. Oscar (1990). British Battleships 1860–1950. London: Pen & Sword Ltd. ISBN 0850526043. (on Bookfinder.com).
- Roberts, John (1997). Battlecruisers. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 186176006X. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1557500681. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
- Johnston, Ian (2011). Clydebank Battlecruisers: Forgotten Photographs from John Brown's Shipyard. South Yorkshire: Seaforth Publishing, Pen & Sword Books. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
- David K Brown. The Design of HMS Inflexible in Warship, Issue 5.
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