British Sixth Rate post ship 'Volage' (1798)

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Volage
Nominal Guns	22	BWAS-1793
Nationality	Great Britain
Operator	Royal Navy
Previously	French Privateer corvette 'La Volage' (1797) (22) 1797-1798 French 22 Gun Privateer Corvette
Captured	23.1.1798	BWAS-1793
First Commissioned	10.1798	BWAS-1793
Shipyard	Bordeaux - Guyenne	BWAS-1714
Category	Sixth Rate	BWAS-1793
Ship Type	Post Ship	BWAS-1793
Sailing Rig	Ship Rigged	BWAS-1793
Broken Up	8.1804	BWAS-1793

Dimensions

DimensionMeasurementTypeMetric EquivalentBWAS-1714
Length of Gundeck118' 10 ½"Imperial Feet35.9791
Length of Keel99' 5 ½"Imperial Feet30.1879
Breadth31' 5 ¼"Imperial Feet9.4552
Depth in Hold8' 4"Imperial Feet2.54
Burthen522 ⁷⁹⁄₉₄Tons BM
DimensionMeasurementTypeMetric Equivalentref:692
Burthen400French Tonneaux391.6

Armament

10.1798Broadside Weight = 352 Imperial Pound ( 159.632 kg)BWAS-1714
Gun Deck22 British 32-Pound Carronade

Crew Complement

Date# of MenNotesSource
10.1798155 BWAS-1714

3 Ship Commanders

DatesRankNameSource
10.1798 - 9.1799CaptainBWAS-171416.9.1799 - 1801CaptainBWAS-17149.10.1801 - 1802CaptainBWAS-1714

Service History

DateEventSource
25.1.1798Began fitting at Plymouth Dockyard - Plymouth BWAS-1793
13.2.1799Completed fitting at Plymouth Dockyard - Plymouth BWAS-1793
26.2.1799

Put into Plymouth after being found to be too heavily laden for the passage to the West Indies

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7.3.1799

Sailed from Plymouth for Cork to escort a convoy for Jamaica

BWAS-1714
1801In the West IndiesBWAS-1714

Sources

IDNameAuthorType

BWAS-1714Rif Winfield, Book

BWAS-1793Rif Winfield, Book

TNCVarious, Periodical

ref:692Jean Jacques Salein, Web Site

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