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[]

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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