HMS Volage (1807)
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| Name: | HMS Volage |
| Ordered: | 30 January 1805 |
| Builder: | Richard Chapman, Bideford |
| Laid down: | January 1806 |
| Launched: | 23 March 1807 |
| Completed: | 8 September 1807 at Plymouth Dockyard |
| Commissioned: | May 1807 |
| Honours and awards: |
Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Lissa" |
| Fate: | Sold on 29 January 1818 |
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | Rochester |
| Owner: | Hills & Co. |
| Acquired: | 1818 by purchase |
| Fate: | Last mention in lists 1831 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | 22-gun Laurel-class sixth-rate post ship |
| Tons burthen: | 529 47⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam: | 31 ft 9 in (9.7 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 10 ft 3 in (3.1 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement: | 155 |
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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 in the Battle of Lissa (1811). She was sold in 1818. She then served in a commercial capacity for another 12 years, sailing to India and the South Seas. She is last listed in Lloyd's List in 1831.
The Volage was built by Richard Chapman, of Bideford, and was launched on 23 March 1807. She was sent to the Mediterranean in October 1807, soon after commissioning in May 1807 under Captain Philip Rosenhagen. On 6 November she was off Galita Island when she captured the French cutter Succès, of ten guns and 59 men, under the command of Lieutenant de Vaisseau Bourdé Villehuet. According to her captain, Succès had sailed from Toulon three days earlier on a cruise; Rosenhagen suspected that she was actually carrying despatches that Villehuet had had time to destroy. Rosenhagen also thought that Succès may have been in British service as the Sussex. Earlier, in May, Wizard had chased and engaged Requin for some 88 hours and 369 miles before having to give up the chase when Requin was able to gain the protection of the guns of Fort Goleta in Tunis Bay.
The next year, on 28 July 1808, Volage captured the French brig Requin just north of Corsica after a chase of nine hours during which Requin threw her boats, boom, and anchors overboard. Requin was only 14 months old, armed with 16 guns, though pierced for 18, and had a crew of 108 men under the command of Capitaine-de-Fregate Bérar, a Member of the Legion of Honour. She had just left Ajaccio where she had delivered prizes that she had taken on her way from Algiers to Toulon. Rosenhagen took his prisoners into Malta before returning to his station. A French account reports that Requin endured two-and-a-half hours of fire, returning three broadsides, before surrendering to the English frigate Volage, of 40 guns.
Earlier, in May, Wizard had chased and engaged Requin for some 88 hours and 369 miles before having to give up the chase when Requin was able to gain the protection of the guns of Fort Goleta in the bay of Tunis. The British took Requin into service as HMS Sabine.
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