French ship Inflexible (1839)

	Inflexible as a boys' school
History
France
Name:	Inflexible
Namesake:	Inflexible
Builder:	Rochefort[1]
Laid down:	18 August 1824 [1]
Launched:	21 November 1839 [1]
Commissioned:	24 August 1840 [1]
Stricken:	1875 [1]
Fate:	Scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type:	Suffren class ship of the line
Displacement:	4 070 tonnes
Length:	60.50 m (198.5 ft)
Beam:	16.28 m (53.4 ft)
Draught:	7.40 m (24.3 ft)
Propulsion:	3114 m² of sails
Complement:	810 to 846 men
Armament:	1824-1839:; 30 × 30-pounder long guns on lower deck; 32 × 30-pounder short guns on middle deck; 24 × 30-pounder carronades and 4 × 18-pounders on upper decks; 1839-1840; 26 × 30-pounder long guns and 4 × 22cm Paixhans guns on lower deck; 32 × 30-pounder short guns on middle deck; 24 × 30-pounder carronades and 4 × 16 cm Paixhans guns on upper decks;
Armour:	6.97 cm of timber

The Inflexible was a 90-gun Suffren-class Ship of the line of the French Navy

Career

Commissioned in Rochefort in 1840, Inflexible was appointed to the Mediterranean squadron, where she served from 1841 under Captain Guérin des Essarts.[1]

From 1860, she was used as a boys' school in Brest, and was eventually broken up in 1875.[1]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

Citations

Roche, vol.1, p.257

References

Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 257. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
90-guns ships-of-the-line

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[roche257-1] Roche, vol.1, p.257