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Charles Cammell and Co. Ltd., Cyclops Works, Savile Street. HMS Inflexible, The first ship to carry 'Wilson' compound (steel faced) armour. Completed in 1881

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Title:	Charles Cammell and Co. Ltd., Cyclops Works, Savile Street. HMS Inflexible, The first ship to carry 'Wilson' compound (steel faced) armour. Completed in 1881
Date Period:	1851-1899
Notes:	The Inflexible displacement 11,800 tons; length 320 ft; beam 75ft.; draught 26ft. 4ins.; Armour turrets 'Wilson' compound (steel faced) 9ins. thick and an inner layer of wrought iron 8ins. thick. Citadel, wrought iron, 24ins. thick; Armament 4[ft.] 16ins., M.L.R. 8[ft.] 4ins. 4[x] 6 pounders, Q.F. 2[x] 3 pounders. 15 machine guns, 4 torpedo tubes. Image from Cyclops Steel and Iron Works, Sheffield, England c. 1900 (Sheffield Local Studies Library 338.4 SF)
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