Volage HMS

Ship Details

Rig

Frigate

Built

1825

Built In

Tonnage

516

Built By

Demise

scrapped in 1864;

Description

Volage served as the lead ship in the Aden Expedition due to her being the largest and best armed of the ships assembled.[3]
In 1831, Volage was docked in Rio de Janeiro (at the time capital of the Empire of Brazil) alongside HMS Warspite. Volage was the vessel that took Dom Pedro I, who had just abdicated the Brazilian throne, to Portugal, in order to face his brother Dom Miguel in the context of the ongoing Portuguese Civil War of 1828-1834.
Volage fought in the Battle of Chuenpi during the First Opium War under the command of Captain Henry Smith. In 1847 she was converted into a survey ship. Volage was deployed to the Baltic during the Crimean War.[1] At one point geologist Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt served aboard her.

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