Volage Class Corvette (1869)

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Three Volage class iron screw corvettes were built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1880s.

Overview of 3 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name Builder Laid Down Launched Completed Fate
Volage Thames Ironworks, Shipbuilding and Engineering Company 1867 27 Feb, 1869 Sold
Active Thames Ironworks, Shipbuilding and Engineering Company 1867 13 Mar, 1869 Sold 1906
Rover Thames Ironworks, Shipbuilding and Engineering Company 1872 12 Aug, 1874 Sold 1893

Design & Construction

Performance

Armament

See Also

Footnotes

Bibliography

  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).


Volage Class Corvette
  Volage Active Rover