Active
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Active |
Builder | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, Blackwall, London |
Laid down | 1867 |
Launched | 13 March 1869 |
Commissioned | March 1871 |
Decommissioned | 1898 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 10 July 1906 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | Volage-class iron screw corvette |
Displacement | 3,078 long tons (3,127 t) |
Tons burthen | 2,322 bm |
Length | 270 ft (82.3 m) (p/p) |
Beam | 42 ft 1 in (12.8 m) |
Draught | 21 ft 5 in (6.5 m) |
Installed power | |
Propulsion | |
Sail plan | Ship rig |
Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Range | 2,000 nmi (3,700 km; 2,300 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 340 |
Armament |
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HMS Active was a Volage-class corvette built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s. Launched in 1869, she entered service in 1873, and was the commodore's ship on the Cape of Good Hope and West Africa Station. Her crew served ashore in both the Third Anglo-Ashanti and Zulu Wars. From 1885 to 1898, the ship was the flagship of the Training Squadron. Active was sold for scrap in 1906.