Flying Squadron (1870)

For other uses of "Flying Squadron", see Flying Squadron (disambiguation).

The Flying Squadron of 1870 was a Royal Navy squadron made up mostly of wooden ships, but including the very new corvette HMS Volage,[1] which circumnavigated the world to "show the flag".[2] The squadron sailed from England on 3 December 1870 and called at Madeira, Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope, and the East Indies, before crossing the Pacific Ocean and returning to England at the end of 1872.[3]

References

  1. G. A. Ballard, "British Corvettes of 1875: The Volage, Active and Rover" in Mariner's Mirror, January 1937 (Society for Nautical Research), pp. 53–67
  2. Conrad Dixon, Ships of the Victorian Navy (1987), p. 104
  3. Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica (1904), p. 84
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