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2 unusual facts about Volage-class corvette


Volage-class corvette

Active served as the commodore's ship on the Cape of Good Hope and West Africa Station and her crew served ashore in both the Third Anglo-Ashanti and Zulu Wars.

Volage was the first ship to be commissioned and was initially assigned to the Channel Fleet under the command of Captain Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, Bt. However, by the end of 1870, she was transferred to the Flying Squadron which circumnavigated the world.


Amazonas-class corvette

During her one-month voyage to Brazil, she docked in the cities of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte and Salvador, Bahia in September, and was expected to arrive in Rio de Janeiro on 5 October.

The second was named Scarborough on her launch a day later at Scotstoun in Glasgow, and began sea trials in July 2010, reaching 25.38 knots.

Braunschweig-class corvette

The Polyphem program was canceled in 2003 and instead the designers chose to equip the class with the RBS-15.

While the RBS-15 has a much greater range (250 km), the current version mounted on the ships, Mk3, lacks the ECM-resistant video feedback of the Polyphem.

Briton-class corvette

Between them, they were assigned to the China, East Indies, African, North American, and the Pacific Stations.

Buque de Acción Marítima

In June 2009, the Secretary of State for Defence and Congress confirmed the construction of a second batch to replace older patrol boats of the Anaga (3), Toralla (2), Descubierta (4) and the now-retired Barceló (6) & Conejera (4) classes.

Burak-class corvette

Burak-class corvette (Turkish: Burak sınıfı korvet), aka B-class corvette, is a warship class of the Turkish Navy, all ex-D'Estienne d'Orves class A69 type Aviso corvettes, mainly designed for coastal anti-submarine defense and ocean escort missions.

Buyan-class corvette

The first ship of her class, the Astrakhan was commissioned on January 2006, and assigned to the Caspian Flotilla.

Conway-class corvette

She recommissioned in 1835 for the Pacific, and during this time she carried some of Charles Darwin's letters and specimens back to the United Kingdom.

Donald MacKillop

In 1944, aged seventeen he joined the Royal Navy as a boy sailor and served on the North Atlantic Convoys, on the Flower-class corvette, HMS Loosestrife.

Donghae-class corvette

The Donghae class (동해급) corvette is a class of four ships of the Republic of Korea Navy used for coastal patrol duties.

Durjoy-class corvette

The LPC are armed with a single 76.2mm NG-16-1 automatic cannon, two twin 25mm cannon mounted amidships, four C-704 surface to surface missiles (SSM) mounted aft, and two forward-mounted six-barreled RDC depth charge rocket launchers.

Gawron-class corvette

However on 24 February 2012 it as announced by the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk that the project was cancelled.

Grisha-class corvette

Two were transferred to the Ukrainian Navy and around seven are in service with the Russian Maritime Border Guard.

Highflyer-class corvette

Highflyer was built at Leamouth Wharf by C J Mare & Co., while Esk was ordered from the Millwall yard of J. Scott Russell & Co. on the River Thames.

Jacinto-class corvette

This weapon is integrated with the 76 mm primary weapon via an Ultra Electronics Command and Control System and a Radamec 1500 Series 2500 Electro-Optical Tracking/Fire Control System.

Khareef-class corvette

2 x 30mm MSI DS30M 30mm cannon

Khukri-class corvette

The diesel engines are assembled in India, under license by Kirloskar Group.

Kora-class corvette

In 2012, it was reported that Mauritius had ordered 2 vessels based on this class from the Garden Reach Shipbuilders.

Laksamana-class corvette

The Laksamana class is armed with the MBDA Otomat Mark 2/Teseo long-range sea-skimming missile with six missile launchers installed on the stern deck, three pointing to port and three pointing starboard.

Nakhoda Ragam-class corvette

The contract was awarded to GEC-Marconi in 1995 and the ships, a variant of the F2000 design, were launched in January 2001, June 2001 and June 2002 at the then BAE Systems Marine yard at Scotstoun, Glasgow.

Niels Juel-class corvette

On several occasions, the vessels took part in operations for NATO, UN, OSCE and coalition forces.

Parchim-class corvette

The electronic defense suite was very basic, and consisted of an IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) receiver and transmitter, and an 'ELOKA' multiband passive RWR antenna slaved to a double 16-cell chaff dispenser.

In case of an all-out NATO-Warsaw Pact war in Europe their prime targets would have been the small U-206 coastal submarines of the West German navy.

Peacock-class corvette

This ship takes her name from a Tipperary saint born around the year 611 who, after taking religious vows in her teens, founded a convent in Kilkeary, near Nenagh.

Also featured is a Celtic cross as a representation of the North Cross at Athenny, County Tipperary.

For these roles each vessel could carry two Avon Searider SR5M Rigid-hulled inflatable boats and a small detachment of Royal Marines.

Pohang-class corvette

The Pohang class (Korean: 포항급, Hanja: 浦項級) corvette is a class of general purpose vessels operated by the Republic of Korea Navy.

PR-72P-class corvette

Pennant numbers were originally P-101 to P-106, but were later modified to CM-21 to CM-26, where CM stands for corbeta misilera, Spanish for guided missile corvette.

Sariwon-class corvette

There are currently five active ships of this type in the Korean People's Navy.

Stockholm-class corvette

In early 2009 the Swedish government decided that the two ships in the class was to join the EU-lead taskforce outside Somalia, where its would fight piracy.

In the early 1980s a series of submarine incidents occurred within Swedish territorial waters, the most famous of which was U 137 which ran aground outside Karlskrona 1981.

The modernisation included new engines, combat control systems, fire control systems, SIGINT and navigational systems.

Visby-class corvette

Much of the design was based on the experiences learned from the experimental ship HSwMS Smyge.

Yono-class submarine

A Yono class submarine is thought to have fired the torpedo attack which sank a South Korean Pohang-class corvette, the ROKS Cheonan on March 26, 2010 in South Korean waters.


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