HMS Volage (R41)
Volage in May 1944
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| Name: | HMS Volage |
| Ordered: | 1 September 1941 |
| Builder: | J. Samuel White |
| Laid down: | 31 December 1942 |
| Launched: | 15 February 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 26 May 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 1956 |
| Identification: | pennant number R41/F41 |
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| Fate: | Sold 28 October 1972; scrapped by Pounds at Portsmouth 1977 |
| Badge: | "On a Field White, a Red Admiral butterfly Proper" |
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| Class and type: | V-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1808 tons (standard)/2530 tons (full load) |
| Length: | 363 ft (111 m) overall |
| Beam: | 36 ft (11 m) |
| Draught: | 10 ft (3.0 m) |
| Propulsion: | two Admiralty drum boilers, Parsons geared turbines driving 2 shafts; 40,000 shp (30,000 kW) |
| Speed: | 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) |
| Range: | 4,680 nautical miles (8,670 km; 5,390 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement: | 180 |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
Radar Type 276, Radar Type 291, HF/DF |
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HMS Volage was a V-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy, commissioned on 26 May 1944, that served in the Arctic and the Indian Oceans during World War II. She was the fifth Royal Naval ship to bear the name (a sixth was planned during World War I as a modified V class destroyer but the order was cancelled in 1918).
She was ordered on 1 September 1941 as part of the 8th Emergency flotilla and fitted for Arctic service.
On 22 October 1946, Volage and the destroyer HMS Saumarez (G12) were badly damaged by mines laid in the North Corfu Channel. She was subsequently rebuilt as a Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigate, with the new pennant number "F41", during 1952–53, and scrapped in 1972.
Volage completed her trials and she was commissioned on 26 May 1944 into the 26th Destroyer Flotilla (26DF) of the Home Fleet. She joined the Fleet at Scapa Flow and commenced active service on August with her flotilla on an exercise for a planned operation (Operation Offspring) off Norway. (During one exercise, oiling from the battleship HMS Howe, the two ships locked together and Volage suffered superficial damage.) On 10 August, 26DF escorted other warships for air attacks on shipping and shore targets between the islands of Lepsøya and Haramsøya in Norway.
From 17 to 23 September, Volage joined the screen for a strong force providing cover for Convoy JW60, en route to Kola Inlet, northern Russia and repeated the role for the return convoy RA60 to Loch Ewe between 29 September and 3 October. The escort had been assembled in case of attack by the German battleship Tirpitz but Tirpitz had been disabled by an air attack some days before and the outward passage was uneventful. On the return, however, two merchant ships were lost to the German submarine U-310.
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