HMS Active (1869)

Active
History
United Kingdom
Name	Active
Builder	Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, Blackwall, London
Laid down	1867
Launched	13 March 1869
Commissioned	March 1871
Decommissioned	1898
Fate	Sold for scrap, 10 July 1906
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	Volage-class iron screw corvette
Displacement	3,078 long tons (3,127 t)
Tons burthen	2,322 bm
Length	270 ft (82.3 m) (p/p)
Beam	42 ft 1 in (12.8 m)
Draught	21 ft 5 in (6.5 m)
Installed power	5 × rectangular boilers 4,130 ihp (3,080 kW)
Propulsion	1 × propeller shaft 1 × horizontal-return, connecting-rod steam engine
Sail plan	Ship rig
Speed	15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Range	2,000 nmi (3,700 km; 2,300 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	340
Armament	6 × 7 in (178 mm) rifled muzzle-loading guns 4 × 6.3 in (160 mm) 64-pounder rifled muzzle-loading guns

HMS Active was a Volage-class corvette built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s. Launched in 1869, she entered service in 1873, and was the commodore's ship on the Cape of Good Hope and West Africa Station. Her crew served ashore in both the Third Anglo-Ashanti and Zulu Wars. From 1885 to 1898, the ship was the flagship of the Training Squadron. Active was sold for scrap in 1906.