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]

References

^ 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
^ Conrad Dixon, Ships of the Victorian Navy (1987), p. 104
^ Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica (1904), p. 84

[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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