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French ship Inflexible (1839)

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Name
  
Inflexible

Builder
  
Rochefort

Commissioned
  
24 August 1840

Construction started
  
18 August 1824

Length
  
60 m

Draft
  
7.4 m

Namesake
  
Inflexible

Laid down
  
18 August 1824

Struck
  
1875

Launched
  
21 November 1839

Weight
  
4,070 tons

French ship Inflexible (1839)

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.

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

References

French ship Inflexible (1839) Wikipedia