HMS Volage (R41)

HMS Volage in May 1944
History
United Kingdom
NameVolage
Ordered1 September 1941
BuilderJ. Samuel White
Laid down31 December 1942
Launched15 February 1943
Commissioned26 May 1944
Decommissioned1956
IdentificationPennant number R41/F41
Honours and
awards
  • Arctic 1944
  • East Indies 1945[1]
FateSold 28 October 1972;[2] scrapped by Pounds at Portsmouth 1977
Badge"On a Field White, a Red Admiral butterfly Proper"
General characteristics V-class destroyer
Class and typeV-class destroyer
Displacement
  • 1,777 long tons (1,806 t) standard
  • 2,058 long tons (2,091 t) full load
Length363 ft (111 m)
Beam35 ft 8 in (10.87 m)
Draught10 ft (3.0 m)
Propulsion
  • 2 × Admiralty 3-drum water-tube boilers
  • Geared steam turbines, 40,000 shp (29,828 kW)
  • 2 shafts
Speed37 knots (43 mph; 69 km/h)
Range4,860 nmi (9,000 km) at 29 kn (54 km/h)
Complement180 (225 in flotilla leader)
Armament
General characteristics Type 15 frigate
Class and typeType 15 frigate
Displacement2,300 long tons (2,337 t) standard
Length358 ft (109 m) o/a
Beam37 ft 9 in (11.51 m)
Draught14 ft 6 in (4.42 m)
Propulsion
  • 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers,
  • steam turbines on 2 shafts,
  • 40,000 shp
Speed31 knots (36 mph; 57 km/h) (full load)
Complement174
Sensors and
processing systems
  • Radar
  • Type 293Q target indication (later Type 993)
  • Type 277Q surface search
  • Type 974 navigation
  • Type 262 fire control on director CRBF
  • Type 1010 Cossor Mark 10 IFF
  • Sonar:
  • Type 174 search
  • Type 162 target classification
  • Type 170 attack
Armament

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. She was the fifth Royal Naval ship to bear the name (a sixth was planned during World War I as a modified V-class destroyer but the order was cancelled in 1918).

She was ordered on 1 September 1941 as part of the 8th Emergency flotilla and fitted for Arctic service.

On 22 October 1946, Volage and the destroyer HMS Saumarez were badly damaged by mines laid in the North Corfu Channel. She was subsequently rebuilt as a Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigate, with the new pennant number "F41", during 1952–53, and scrapped in 1972.[2]

  1. ^ King, Ian M (25 February 2011). "Honour - EAST INDIES 1940-45".
  2. ^ a b Mason, Geoffrey B (2004). "HMS Volage (R 41) – V-class Destroyer". SERVICE HISTORIES of ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS in WORLD WAR 2. Retrieved 8 June 2011.