HMS Virago

Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Virago, after the term virago, to mean a strong, warlike woman: * was a 12-gun gun-brig launched in 1805 and sold in 1816. * HMS Virago (1842) was a wooden paddle sloop launched in 1842 and broken up in 1875. * HMS Virago (1895) was a Quail-class torpedo boat destroyer launched in 1895, reclassified as a B-class destroyer in 1913 and sold in 1919. * HMS Virago (R75) was a V-class destroyer launched in 1943. She was converted into a Type 15 frigate between 1951 and 1952, and was scrapped in 1965. This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists. rdf:langString