Talk:HMS Inflexible (1876)

Merged from HMS Inflexible (1881)
I have merged the text of HMS Inflexible (1881) into this one. This required cutting and pasting large slabs of text, so the edit history for them got left behind in the other article. However this is apparently how merges are done. My apologies if I have misunderstood how to do it. Jll 10:02, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

assessment
This article would be a B-class if it had more citations. Thanks! Cam 03:11, 26 May 2007 (UTC) User:Climie.ca

Weight of protection
Not a big issue; typo on the armour weight 11,000lb altered to 1,100lb (x2 RN rated 12", I'd guess actually 480lb/ft2 or 11.76" plus teak ~50lb/ft3, works out for almost exactly 1,100lb/ft2) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.75.48.5 (talk) 10:36, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Armor
I just finished reading the article on the Italian ships this was designed to counter. If this was designed in response to the Italian ships, then how is it possible that this is "the first ship" to utilize horizontal underwater armor instead of traditional hull armor...the article on the Italian ships appears to claim that they were built the same way. The exact quotes from that page are: "To accommodate such massive weapons, the armour belt was restricted to the central third of the vessel, forming a citadel on which the turrets were mounted en-echelon" "...there was insufficient space within the citadel to accommodate all the machinery. The boilers and engine spaces were protected by an armoured deck 50 mm thick extending the full length of the waterline. This protection scheme was described as a 'raft-body' design." Which I take to mean it had exactly the same armor as described in the article on the Inflexible. They were both laid down and launched at almost identical times; in fact the Italian ship was first by a bit. If the Inflexible was built solely to react to the existence of the Italian ships, and was launched slightly after them, how can it be the first one to use this type of armor? I think the best you can say is that they were both launched at the same time, if not that the Italians were first. — Preceding unsigned comment added by .45Colt (talk • contribs) 20:42, 12 February 2014 (UTC)