French frigate Volontaire (1796)

Career (France)
Name: Volontaire
General characteristics
Class and type: Virginie class frigate
Displacement: 720 tonnes
Length: 47.4 metres
Beam: 11.9 metres
Draught: 5.5 metres
Armament: 44 guns
Armour: Timber

The Volontaire was a 44-gun Virginie class frigate of the French Navy.

She took part in the Atlantic campaign of 1806, and was captured by HMS Diadem in March 1806. She was brought into Royal Navy service as HMS Volontaire.

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