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HMS Wolverine (1798)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Wolverine.
HMS Wolverine (or Wolverene, or Woolverene), was a Royal Navy 14-gun brig-sloop, formerly the civilian collier Rattler that the Admiralty purchased in 1798 and converted into a brig sloop, but armed experimentally. She served during the French Revolutionary Wars and participated in one action that won for her crew a clasp to the Naval General Service Medal. A French privateer captured and sank Wolverine on 21 March 1804 whilst she was on convoy duty.
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Name | Rattler |
Launched | 1796 |
Fate | Sold 1798 |
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Name | HMS Wolverine |
Acquired | March 1798 (by purchase) |
Honours and awards | Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Wolverine 13 Sept. 1799" |
Fate | Captured and sunk 24 March 1804 |
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Type | brig-sloop (ex-collier) |
Tons burthen | 286 (bm) |
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Beam | 27 ft 6 in (8.4 m) |
Propulsion | Sails |
Sail plan | Brig |
Complement | 70 |
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