About: HMS Inflexible

Five ships of the Royal Navy have been called HMS Inflexible. * was a 280-ton sloop-of-war launched in 1776. HMS Inflexible was disassembled at Quebec City and transported upriver in pieces and reassembled and commissioned 1776 at Saint-Jean on the upper Richelieu River upon a request of General Carleton. She carried eighteen 12-pounders. She fought at the battle of Battle of Valcour Island in 1776 under the command of John Schank. Her fate is unknown. * HMS Inflexible (1780) was a 64-gun third-rate Inflexible-class ship of the line launched in 1780. She was used as a storeship from 1793, a troopship from 1809 and was broken up in 1820. * HMS Inflexible (1845) was a wooden screw sloop launched in 1845 and sold in 1864. * HMS Inflexible (1876) was an ironclad battleship launched in 18