British Battlecruiser HMS Inflexible
HMS Inflexible was an Invincible-class battlecruiser of the British Royal Navy. She was built before World War I and had an active career during the war. She tried to hunt down the German battlecruiser SMS Goeben and the light cruiser SMS Breslau in the Mediterranean Sea when war broke out and she and her sister ship Invincible sank the German armoured cruisers SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Gneisenau during the Battle of the Falkland Islands. Inflexible bombarded Turkish forts in the Dardanelles in 1915, but was damaged by return fire and struck a mine while manoeuvring. She had to be beached to prevent her from sinking, but she was patched up and sent to Malta, and then Gibraltar for more permanent repairs. Transferred to the Grand Fleet afterwards, she damaged the German battlecruiser Lützow during the Battle of Jutland and watched Invincible explode. She was deemed obsolete after the war and was sold for scrap in 1921.
Stern of HMS Inflexible on the slipway. (John Brown Shipyard, 1907) HMS Inflexible Before Launching HMS Drake leading HMS Indomitable, HMS Inflexible and HMS Invincible, date and location unknown. HMS Inflexible HMS Inflexible HMS Inflexible HMS Inflexible HMS Inflexible October 1909 HMS Inflexible October 1910 HMS Inflexible with HMS Drake in Front HMS Inflexible and New Zealand in 1918 HMS Inflexible View forward from Port 12in Turret – HMS Inflexible 1907