&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Hmsvolage.jpg) Circa 1892 photograph of HMS Volage, lead ship of the class
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Volage |
| Builder | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, Blackwall, London |
| Cost | £126,156 |
| Laid down | September 1867 |
| Launched | 27 February 1869 |
| Commissioned | March 1870 |
| Decommissioned | 1899 |
| Nickname(s) | Vollidge |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 17 May 1904 |
| 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 | 4,130 ihp (3,080 kW) |
| Propulsion |
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| 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 |
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HMS Volage was a Volage-class corvette built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s. She spent most of her first commission assigned to the Flying Squadron circumnavigating the world, and later carried a party of astronomers to the Kerguelen Islands to observe the transit of Venus in 1874. The ship was then assigned as the senior officer's ship in South American waters until she was transferred to the Training Squadron during the 1880s. Volage was paid off in 1899 and sold for scrap in 1904.