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| | Navy List - June 1844 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Lord George Hamilton nine years ago, when he was First Lord of the Admiralty, in referring to the life of an ironclad, reckoned 20 years as the period after which such vessels might be said to become obsolete. |
 | | The Inflexible was the first ship in which steel-faced armour was used for outer turret plating, and the turrets were placed so far apart laterally as to obtain direct fire ahead and astern in conjunction with a high deck forward and aft, and a couple of narrow deck superstructures. |
 | | She is of 8,015 tons and measures 315 ft. by 62 ft., and is, in a sense, a modified Admiral, for the disposition of the armour is similar, though reduced in thickness from 18 in. |
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