HMS Volage

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Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Volage:

  • {{HMS|Volage|1798}} was a 22-gun sixth rate. She was the French privateer Volage, of 22 guns, that {{HMS|Melampus|1785|6}} captured in 1798;{{London Gazette|date=27 January 1798 |issue=14086 |page=88}} Volage was broken up in 1804.
  • {{HMS|Volage|1807}} was a 22-gun sixth rate launched in 1807 and sold in 1818.
  • {{HMS|Volage|1825}} was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1825. She was converted into a survey ship in 1847, lent to the War Department as a powder hulk in 1864 and broken up by 1874.
  • {{HMS|Volage|1869}} was an iron screw corvette, ordered as HMS Cerberus but renamed in 1867 before being launched in 1869. She was broken up in 1904.
  • HMS Volage was to have been a modified W-class destroyer but the order was cancelled in 1918.
  • {{HMS|Volage|R41}} was a V-class destroyer launched in 1943. She was converted into an anti-submarine frigate in 1951 and sold in 1972.

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