Five ships of the
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...
have borne the name HMS ''Volcano''. Two more were planned, but never completed:
* was an 8-gun
fireship
A fire ship or fireship, used in the days of wooden rowed or sailing ships, was a ship filled with combustibles, or gunpowder deliberately set on fire and steered (or, when possible, allowed to drift) into an enemy fleet, in order to destroy sh ...
purchased in 1778 and sold in 1781.
* was an 8-gun fireship purchased in 1780 and sold in 1784.
* was an 8-gun
bomb vessel
A bomb vessel, bomb ship, bomb ketch, or simply bomb was a type of wooden sailing naval ship. Its primary armament was not cannons ( long guns or carronades) – although bomb vessels carried a few cannons for self-defence – but mortars mounte ...
purchased in 1797 and sold in 1810.
* was originally a 16-gun
sloop
A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sa ...
named HMS ''Heron''. She was reclassified as a bomb vessel in 1810 and renamed HMS ''Volcano''. She was sold in 1816 and became the mercantile ''Jason'', which was wrecked in 1821.
* HMS ''Volcano'' was to have been an 8-gun bomb vessel. She was ordered in 1819 and cancelled in 1831.
* was a wooden paddle sloop launched in 1836. She became a floating factory in 1862 and was broken up in 1894.
* HMS ''Volcano'' was to have been a
W-class destroyer
In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, manoeuvrable, long-endurance warship intended to escort
larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against powerful short range attackers. They were originally developed in ...
. She was cancelled in 1918.
* HMS ''Volcano'' was a World War II land-based training establishment at
Holmrook Hall
Holmrook is a linear village in the English county of Cumbria. It lies along the A595 road on the west banks of the River Irt. The B5344 road connects it to Drigg, with its railway station less than two miles to the west.
Two miles north-e ...
,
Cumbria
Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England, bordering Scotland. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local government, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. Cumb ...
, specialising in explosives
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Royal Navy ship names