HMS Volage was a sixth-rate sailing frigate launched in 1825 for the Royal Navy. At one point geologist Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt served aboard her. Volage...
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name HMS Volage: HMS Volage (1798) was a 22-gun sixth rate. She was the French privateer Volage, of 22 guns, that HMS Melampus captured in 1798; Volage was...
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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...
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returning East Indiamen. At that time, Captain Samuel Leslie (acting) of Volage replaced Peachey. Shortly thereafter Captain Donald Hugh Mackay replaced...
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William Hoste (section HMS Agamemnon)
a small detachment of frigates, comprising HMS Amphion, HMS Active (36 guns), HMS Volage (22 guns) and HMS Cerberus (32 guns), operations continued and...
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Captain Richard Saunders Dundas of the accompanying sixth-rate survey ship HMS Volage took command for the rest of the voyage which saw Warspite as the first...
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1837 Smith was sent to the East Indies Station in command of the frigate HMS Volage. In January 1838 the Sultanate of Lahej agreed to transfer a number of...
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the hull. Lieutenant Gore served on the Modeste in November 1837 and the Volage in January 1838, on the latter ship seeing action during the Aden Expedition...
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1819–40 HMS Seringapatam 1819 HMS Madagascar 1822 HMS Druid 1825 HMS Nemesis 1826 HMS Africaine 1827 HMS Leda 1828 HMS Hotspur 1828 HMS Eurotas 1829 HMS Andromeda...
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command of the sixth-rate HMS Volage on the North America and West Indies Station in September 1825 and then of the third-rate HMS Warspite on the East Indies...
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HMS Active was a Royal Navy fifth-rate frigate launched on 14 December 1799 at Chatham Dockyard. Sir John Henslow designed her as an improvement on the...
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on 7 April 1825, he transferred to the fifth-rate HMS Sybille in the Mediterranean Fleet that month and then to the sixth-rate HMS Volage on the South...
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captured Carducci. The next day Seahorse captured Buona Sorte. Cephalus and Volage were in company, and Pomone shared with Seahorse by agreement. Between these...
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List of single-ship actions (redirect from HMS Hussar (1780))
action with HMS Childers 1808, May 11 and 12 – HMS Wizard vs French 16-gun brig of war Requin, later captured by HMS Volage 1808, June 24 – HMS Salsette...
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published a letter in The Australian thanking the commanders of HMS Warspite and Volage for the assistance they had rendered. Langdon had apparently brought...
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Mutiny first hand aged 12 in 1797. Later, commanding his own sixth-rate HMS Volage in 1811, Hornby played a vital role in the British victory at the Battle...
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1840–41, in HMS Carysfort, during which time he was wounded and mentioned in dispatches. He served as lieutenant on 28-gun frigate Volage from 29 June...
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HMS Cerberus was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She served in the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars in the Channel, the Mediterranean...
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Royal George (1803 ship) (redirect from HMS Bustard (1806))
men encamped on the opposite shore. In June 1810, boats from Bustard and Volage, under Markland's command, Bustard, entered a port a few miles south of...
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given command of the 24-gun frigate HMS Volage, a recently captured French privateer, in October 1798. He sailed Volage to join the Leeward Islands Station...
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April, the former emperor transferred to and departed for Europe aboard HMS Volage. He arrived in Cherbourg-Octeville, France, on 10 June. During the next...
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of the Challenger in 1874, who gave it to the commander Fairfax of the Volage, who in turn passed it on to the German commander of La Gazelle, enabling...
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Graves in HMS Mastiff and HMS Beacon. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1841 and his first command was the converted sixth-rate HMS Volage. He then succeeded...
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1814; hulked 1825; demolished probably in 1841. Renommée, (launched 21 August 1808 at Basse-Indre) – captured by British Navy 1811, becoming HMS Java. Amélie...
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canto of Don Juan. He returned to England from Malta in July 1811 aboard HMS Volage. After the publication of the first two cantos of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage...
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contingent in the second punitive expedition consisted of Leda, Hussar, Malacca, Volage, Hecate, and Procris, with Captain Sayer of Leda as the senior naval officer...
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carrying log wood and suspicious papers. Hannibal, Thunderer, Maidstone, York, Volage, and Echo shared the proceeds of the capture or detention between 26 June...
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a first-class volunteer in 1837, serving until 1844 on HMS Hyacinth, HMS Clio, and HMS Volage. In 1838, he was entrusted with the command of a gunboat...
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Budock Hospital (recently closed: 2007) was formerly the Union Workhouse. HMS Astraea was a 36-gun fifth rater launched in 1810, on harbour service from...
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