HMS Volage
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Six ships of the Royal Navy
have borne the name HMS Volage:
Royal Navy
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have borne the name HMS Volage:
- HMS Volage was a 22-gun sixth rate. She was formerly a French privateerPrivateerA privateer is a private person or ship authorized by a government by letters of marque to attack foreign shipping during wartime. Privateering was a way of mobilizing armed ships and sailors without having to spend public money or commit naval officers...
and was captured by HMS MelampusHMS Melampus (1785)HMS Melampus was a Royal Navy fifth-rate frigate that served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. She captured numerous prizes before she was sold in 1815.-Design and construction:...
in 1798 and broken up in 1804. - HMS VolageHMS Volage (1807)HMS Volage was a Laurel-class sixth-rate post-ship of the Royal Navy. She served during the Napoleonic War, capturing four privateers and participating in the Battle of Lissa . She was sold in 1818.-Career:...
was a 22-gun sixth rate launched in 1807 and sold in 1818. - HMS Volage was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1825. She was converted into a survey ship in 1847, lent to the War Department as a powder hulk in 1864 and broken up by 1874.
- HMS Volage was an iron screw corvetteCorvetteA corvette is a small, maneuverable, lightly armed warship, originally smaller than a frigate and larger than a coastal patrol craft or fast attack craft , although many recent designs resemble frigates in size and role...
, ordered as HMS Cerberus but renamed in 1867 before being launched in 1869. She was broken up in 1904. - HMS Volage was to have been a modified W classV and W class destroyerThe V and W class was an amalgam of six similar classes of destroyer built for the Royal Navy under the War Emergency Programme of the First World War and generally treated as one class...
destroyerDestroyerIn naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller, powerful, short-range attackers. Destroyers, originally called torpedo-boat destroyers in 1892, evolved from...
but the order was cancelled in 1918. - HMS VolageHMS Volage (R41)HMS Volage was a V-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy, commissioned on 26 May 1944, that served in the Arctic and the Indian Oceans during World War II...
was a V classU and V class destroyerThe U and V class was a class of sixteen destroyers of the Royal Navy launched in 1942–1943. They were constructed in two flotillas, each with names beginning with "U-" or "V-"...
destroyer launched in 1943. She was converted into an anti-submarine frigateFrigateA frigate is any of several types of warship, the term having been used for ships of various sizes and roles over the last few centuries.In the 17th century, the term was used for any warship built for speed and maneuverability, the description often used being "frigate-built"...
in 1951 and sold in 1972.