HMS Volage (R41)

HMS Volage (R41)

HMS Volage (R41) 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 HMS Saumarez were badly damaged by mines laid in the North Corfu Channel. She was subsequently constructed as a Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigate, with the new pennant number "F41", during 1952-1953, and scrapped in 1972.

Read more about HMS Volage (R41):  Home Fleet, Indian Ocean, Post-war