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margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><i>Impregnable II</i>, June 1906</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><i>Defiance IV</i>, January 1922</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><i>Defiance II</i>, December 1930</li> </ul></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Reclassified</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Hulk_(ship)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hulk (ship)">Hulked</a>, 1897</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Training_ship" title="Training ship">Training ship</a>, June 1906</li> </ul></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Fate</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">Sold for <a href="/wiki/Ship_breaking" title="Ship breaking">scrap</a>, September 1955</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">broken up in <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a>, 4 April 1956</li> </ul></td></tr> <tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">General characteristics</th></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Type</td><td>Unarmored <a href="/wiki/Steam_frigate" title="Steam frigate">steam frigate</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Displacement</td><td>5,782 <a href="/wiki/Long_ton" title="Long ton">long tons</a> (5,875 <a href="/wiki/Tonne" title="Tonne">t</a>)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Tons burthen</td><td>4,066 <a href="/wiki/Builder%27s_Old_Measurement" title="Builder's Old Measurement">bm</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Length</td><td>337 ft 4 in (102.8 m) (<a href="/wiki/Length_between_perpendiculars" title="Length between perpendiculars">p/p</a>)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Beam</td><td>50 ft 4 in (15.3 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Draught</td><td>25 ft 6 in (7.8 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Installed power</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">7,360 <a href="/wiki/Horsepower#Indicated_horsepower" title="Horsepower">ihp</a> (5,490 kW)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">11 <a href="/wiki/Boiler" title="Boiler">boilers</a></li> </ul></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Propulsion</td><td>1 shaft; 1 × <a href="/wiki/Trunk_engine" class="mw-redirect" title="Trunk engine">trunk steam engine</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Sail plan</td><td><a href="/wiki/Ship_rig" class="mw-redirect" title="Ship rig">Ship rig</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Speed</td><td>16 <a href="/wiki/Knot_(unit)" title="Knot (unit)">knots</a> (30 km/h; 18 mph)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Range</td><td>2,780 <a href="/wiki/Nautical_mile" title="Nautical mile">nmi</a> (5,150 km; 3,200 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Complement</td><td>600</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Armament</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; 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Upon completion in 1869, she was the fastest warship in the world<sup id="cite_ref-b4_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-b4-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was assigned to the <a href="/wiki/Channel_Squadron" class="mw-redirect" title="Channel Squadron">Channel Squadron</a>. Two years later the ship was transferred to the Detached Squadron for a brief time before she was <a href="/wiki/Ship_decommissioning" class="mw-redirect" title="Ship decommissioning">paid off</a> into <a href="/wiki/Reserve_fleet" title="Reserve fleet">reserve</a> in 1872. <i>Inconstant</i> was <a href="/wiki/Ship_commissioning" title="Ship commissioning">recommissioned</a> in 1880 for service with the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Flying_Squadron_(1880)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Flying Squadron (1880) (page does not exist)">Flying Squadron</a> that circumnavigated the world in 1880–82. On the return voyage, the ship was diverted to Egypt during the <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Egyptian_War" title="Anglo-Egyptian War">Anglo-Egyptian War</a> of 1882 and played a minor role supporting operations ashore. She was reduced to reserve again after her return and was served as an accommodation ship in 1897. <i>Inconstant</i> was <a href="/wiki/Hulk_(ship)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hulk (ship)">hulked</a> in 1904 and became a <a href="/wiki/Training_ship" title="Training ship">training ship</a> in 1906. She continued in that role, under a variety of names, until she was sold for <a href="/wiki/Ship_breaking" title="Ship breaking">scrap</a> in 1955 and subsequently broken up, the second-to-last surviving <a href="/wiki/Pembroke_Dock" title="Pembroke Dock">Pembroke</a>-built warship in existence.<sup id="cite_ref-p2_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-p2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Design_and_description">Design and description</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=HMS_Inconstant_(1868)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Design and description"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Inconstant</i> was the first of an intended six fast, unarmoured, iron-hulled, frigates designed by the British Admiralty's <a href="/wiki/Chief_Constructor" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Constructor">Chief Constructor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edward_James_Reed" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward James Reed">Sir Edward Reed</a>, in response to the fast, wooden American <a href="/wiki/USS_Wampanoag_(1864)" title="USS Wampanoag (1864)"><i>Wampanoag</i></a>-class frigates. Only three were built, however, as the American ships proved to be flawed enough to pose no real threat and the British ships were very expensive.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ship was 337 feet 4 inches (102.8 m) <a href="/wiki/Length_between_perpendiculars" title="Length between perpendiculars">long between perpendiculars</a>, had a <a href="/wiki/Beam_(nautical)" title="Beam (nautical)">beam</a> of 50 feet 3 inches (15.3 m), and a <a href="/wiki/Draft_(hull)" title="Draft (hull)">draught</a> of 25 feet 6 inches (7.8 m). <i>Inconstant</i> <a href="/wiki/Displacement_(ship)" title="Displacement (ship)">displaced</a> 5,780 <a href="/wiki/Long_ton" title="Long ton">long tons</a> (5,870 <a href="/wiki/Tonne" title="Tonne">t</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-ck5_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ck5-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and had a <a href="/wiki/Tonnage" title="Tonnage">tonnage</a> of 4,066 <a href="/wiki/Builder%27s_Old_Measurement" title="Builder's Old Measurement">tons burthen</a>. She carried a complement of 600 officers and <a href="/wiki/Naval_rating" title="Naval rating">ratings</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-wl0_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wl0-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> To reduce <a href="/wiki/Biofouling" title="Biofouling">biofouling</a>, her iron hull was sheathed in two layers of <a href="/wiki/Oak" title="Oak">oak</a> 3 inches (76 mm) thick that was covered by a layer of copper. <i>Inconstant</i> was a good <a href="/wiki/Seaboat" class="mw-redirect" title="Seaboat">seaboat</a> and a steady gun platform.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The ship had a single <a href="/wiki/John_Penn_and_Sons" title="John Penn and Sons">John Penn and Sons</a> two-cylinder <a href="/wiki/Trunk_engine" class="mw-redirect" title="Trunk engine">trunk steam engine</a> that drove a 23-foot (7.0 m) propeller. The engine used steam provided by 11 <a href="/wiki/Boiler" title="Boiler">boilers</a> with a working pressure of 30 <a href="/wiki/Pound_per_square_inch" title="Pound per square inch">psi</a> (207 <a href="/wiki/Pascal_(unit)" title="Pascal (unit)">kPa</a>; 2 <a href="/wiki/Kilogram-force" title="Kilogram-force">kgf/cm<sup>2</sup></a>).<sup id="cite_ref-b4_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-b4-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Inconstant</i> reached a speed of 16.2 <a href="/wiki/Knot_(unit)" title="Knot (unit)">knots</a> (30.0 km/h; 18.6 mph) from 7,360 <a href="/wiki/Horsepower#Indicated_horsepower" title="Horsepower">indicated horsepower</a> (5,490 kW) during her <a href="/wiki/Sea_trial" title="Sea trial">sea trials</a> and was the fastest warship afloat when completed.<sup id="cite_ref-ck5_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ck5-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ship once sustained an average speed of 15.5 knots (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph) for 24 hours.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She carried a maximum of 750 long tons (760 t) of coal, enough to steam 2,780 <a href="/wiki/Nautical_mile" title="Nautical mile">nautical miles</a> (5,150 km; 3,200 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph).<sup id="cite_ref-wl0_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wl0-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Inconstant</i> was <a href="/wiki/Ship_rig" class="mw-redirect" title="Ship rig">ship-rigged</a> with three <a href="/wiki/Mast_(sailing)" title="Mast (sailing)">masts</a> and a sail area of 26,655 square feet (2,476 m<sup>2</sup>). She proved to be excellent under sail, reaching a maximum speed of 13.5 knots (25.0 km/h; 15.5 mph), one of only two warships ever to reach this speed under sail and 16 knots with steam.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> To improve her performance under sail, her propeller could be hoisted into the hull and her <a href="/wiki/Funnel_(ship)" title="Funnel (ship)">funnels</a> lowered to reduce <a href="/wiki/Drag_(physics)" title="Drag (physics)">drag</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ck5_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ck5-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When completed the ship was more heavily armed than all but two of the twenty-four British ironclads afloat.<sup id="cite_ref-b4_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-b4-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Inconstant</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s main armament consisted of ten <a href="/wiki/Muzzle-loading_rifle" title="Muzzle-loading rifle">rifled muzzle-loading (RML)</a> <a href="/wiki/RML_9_inch_12_ton_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="RML 9 inch 12 ton gun">9-inch (229 mm) guns</a> on the main <a href="/wiki/Deck_(ship)" title="Deck (ship)">deck</a> in the traditional <a href="/wiki/Broadside_(naval)" title="Broadside (naval)">broadside</a> layout.<sup id="cite_ref-wl0_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wl0-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 9-inch shells weighed 254 pounds (115.2 kg) and were rated with the ability to penetrate 11.3 inches (287 mm) of <a href="/wiki/Wrought_iron" title="Wrought iron">wrought-iron</a> armour.<sup id="cite_ref-ck6_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ck6-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her secondary armament of six <a href="/wiki/RML_7_inch_gun#RML_7_inch_6½_ton_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="RML 7 inch gun">RML 7-inch (178 mm) guns</a> was mounted on the upper deck, with two guns positioned in the <a href="/wiki/Bow_(ship)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bow (ship)">bow</a> as <a href="/wiki/Chase_gun" title="Chase gun">chase guns</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-b4_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-b4-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The guns fired a 112-pound (51 kg) shell that could pierce 7.7 inches (196 mm) of armour.<sup id="cite_ref-ck5_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ck5-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Construction_and_career">Construction and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=HMS_Inconstant_(1868)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Construction and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:H.M.S._Inconstant_RMG_PU6243.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/H.M.S._Inconstant_RMG_PU6243.jpg/220px-H.M.S._Inconstant_RMG_PU6243.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="148" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/H.M.S._Inconstant_RMG_PU6243.jpg/330px-H.M.S._Inconstant_RMG_PU6243.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/H.M.S._Inconstant_RMG_PU6243.jpg/440px-H.M.S._Inconstant_RMG_PU6243.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="859" /></a><figcaption><i>Inconstant</i> in 1872</figcaption></figure> <p><i>Inconstant</i>, the fifth ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was laid down on 27 November 1866 at <a href="/wiki/Pembroke_Dockyard" title="Pembroke Dockyard">Pembroke Dockyard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a>. The ship was <a href="/wiki/Ship_naming_and_launching" class="mw-redirect" title="Ship naming and launching">launched</a> on 25 March 1872 by Lady Muriel Campbell, daughter of <a href="/wiki/John_Campbell,_2nd_Earl_Cawdor" title="John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor">John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor</a>. <i>Inconstant</i> was transferred to <a href="/wiki/Portsmouth_Dockyard" class="mw-redirect" title="Portsmouth Dockyard">Portsmouth Dockyard</a> to finish <a href="/wiki/Fitting_out" title="Fitting out">fitting out</a> and was <a href="/wiki/Ship_commissioning" title="Ship commissioning">commissioned</a> on 12 August 1869 by Captain Elphinstone D'Oyly D'Auvergne Aplin for duty with the Channel Squadron.<sup id="cite_ref-p1_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-p1-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was relieved by Captain <a href="/wiki/Charles_Waddilove" title="Charles Waddilove">Charles Waddilove</a> on 13 September 1870.<sup id="cite_ref-di_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-di-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The following year the ship was assigned to the Detached Squadron, commanded by <a href="/wiki/Rear-Admiral_(Royal_Navy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rear-Admiral (Royal Navy)">Rear-Admiral</a> <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Beauchamp_Paget_Seymour" class="mw-redirect" title="Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour">Frederick Seymour</a>, which visited ports in Scandinavia after <i>Inconstant</i> joined them at <a href="/wiki/Gibraltar" title="Gibraltar">Gibraltar</a>, finally arriving at <a href="/wiki/Spithead" title="Spithead">Spithead</a> on 11 October 1871.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Flying_Squadron_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Flying_Squadron-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ship was <a href="/wiki/Ship_decommissioning" class="mw-redirect" title="Ship decommissioning">paid off</a> in 1872 and spent the next eight years in reserve.<sup id="cite_ref-b6_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-b6-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>She was recommissioned in 1880 and was commanded by Captain <a href="/wiki/Lord_Walter_Kerr" title="Lord Walter Kerr">Lord Walter Kerr</a> from 5 February to 11 March. During this time, <i>Inconstant</i> served as the flagship of Vice-Admiral Seymour of the Mediterranean Fleet<sup id="cite_ref-di_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-di-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as she ferried replacement crews to that fleet.<sup id="cite_ref-b4_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-b4-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From August 1880 to October 1882, <i>Inconstant</i> was assigned to the reconstituted Detached Squadron, this time as the flagship, first of Rear-Admiral <a href="/wiki/Richard_Meade,_4th_Earl_of_Clanwilliam" title="Richard Meade, 4th Earl of Clanwilliam">Richard Meade, 4th Earl of Clanwilliam</a> until he was got sick in <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and then from 6 December 1881 to 17 October 1882 of Rear-Admiral Sir <a href="/wiki/Sir_Francis_Sullivan" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Francis Sullivan">Francis Sullivan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Inconstant</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s captain at this time was Captain <a href="/wiki/Charles_Cooper_Penrose-Fitzgerald" title="Charles Cooper Penrose-Fitzgerald">Charles Penrose-Fitzgerald</a>. The Detached Squadron left Spithead on 17 October 1880 to circumnavigate the world and returned two years later.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Flying_Squadron_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Flying_Squadron-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is claimed that on 11 July 1881 (or 11 June 1881<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>), Prince George of Wales (later King <a href="/wiki/George_V" title="George V">George V</a> of the United Kingdom) sighted a <a href="/wiki/Flying_Dutchman" title="Flying Dutchman">phantom ship</a> whilst aboard <i>Inconstant</i> between <a href="/wiki/Melbourne" title="Melbourne">Melbourne</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sydney" title="Sydney">Sydney</a>. Two other ships, <a href="/wiki/HMS_Tourmaline_(1875)" title="HMS Tourmaline (1875)"><i>Tourmaline</i></a> and <a href="/wiki/HMS_Cleopatra_(1878)" title="HMS Cleopatra (1878)"><i>Cleopatra</i></a>, also reported seeing the phantom ship.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Just after arriving in the <a href="/wiki/Falkland_Islands" title="Falkland Islands">Falkland Islands</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Squadron_(naval)" title="Squadron (naval)">squadron</a> was ordered to <a href="/wiki/Naval_Base_Simon%27s_Town" title="Naval Base Simon's Town">Simonstown</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a>, for possible service in the <a href="/wiki/First_Boer_War" title="First Boer War">First Boer War</a> of 1880–81, but hostilities had already ended by the time that it arrived. On the return voyage, the frigate caught fire; it was stopped by flooding all of the after compartments. Shortly afterward, the squadron was diverted to Egypt after the start of the Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882; they arrived after the <a href="/wiki/Bombardment_of_Alexandria" title="Bombardment of Alexandria">Bombardment of Alexandria</a> on 11 July and some of <i>Inconstant</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s crew were landed to participate in operations ashore.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The ship was reduced to reserve again after their return on 16 October 1882. She became an accommodation ship for the overflow from the barracks at <a href="/wiki/HMNB_Devonport" title="HMNB Devonport">Devonport</a> in 1897.<sup id="cite_ref-p2_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-p2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Inconstant</i> was taken out of service in 1904 and became a gunnery training ship in June 1906, assigned to the boy's training establishment <a href="/w/index.php?title=HMS_Impregnable_(training_establishment_1862)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="HMS Impregnable (training establishment 1862) (page does not exist)"><i>Impregnable</i></a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was renamed <i>Impregnable III</i> in 1907, then <i>Defiance IV</i> in January 1922 after she was transferred to the torpedo training school at Plymouth, <a href="/w/index.php?title=HMS_Defiance_(training_establishment_1884)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="HMS Defiance (training establishment 1884) (page does not exist)"><i>Defiance</i></a>, and then <i>Defiance II</i> in December 1930. The ship was sold for scrap in September 1955 and arrived at the breaker's yard in <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a> on 4 April 1956 for demolition, when she was the second-to-last Welsh-built naval vessel afloat.<sup id="cite_ref-p2_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-p2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:A_visit_to_HMS_Inconstant,_June_1881.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/A_visit_to_HMS_Inconstant%2C_June_1881.jpg/220px-A_visit_to_HMS_Inconstant%2C_June_1881.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="313" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/A_visit_to_HMS_Inconstant%2C_June_1881.jpg/330px-A_visit_to_HMS_Inconstant%2C_June_1881.jpg 1.5x, 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href="#cite_ref-b4_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Ballard, p. 44</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-p2-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-p2_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-p2_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-p2_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Phillips, p. 192</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gardiner, p. 89</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ck5-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ck5_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ck5_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ck5_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ck5_4-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Chesneau & Kolesnik, p. 47</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-wl0-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a 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