Flying Squadron (1870)

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]

Notes

  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