Six 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 ...
have been named HMS ''Wolverine'', or the alternative spelling ''Wolverene'', after the
wolverine
The wolverine (), (''Gulo gulo''; ''Gulo'' is Latin for " glutton"), also referred to as the glutton, carcajou, or quickhatch (from East Cree, ''kwiihkwahaacheew''), is the largest land-dwelling species of the family Mustelidae. It is a muscul ...
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* was a 14-gun
brig-sloop
In the 18th century and most of the 19th, a sloop-of-war in the Royal Navy was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. The rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above; thus, the term ''sloop-of-war'' enc ...
, previously the civilian collier ''Rattler''. She was purchased and converted in 1798 and sunk in action in 1804.
* was an 18-gun launched in 1805 and sold in 1816.
* was a 16-gun launched in 1836 and wrecked in 1855.
* was a wooden screw
corvette launched in 1863. She was sent to
Australia as a
training ship
A training ship is a ship used to train students as sailors. The term is mostly used to describe ships employed by navies to train future officers. Essentially there are two types: those used for training at sea and old hulks used to house class ...
in 1881, and then converted to a mercantile
barque
A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts having the fore- and mainmasts rigged square and only the mizzen (the aftmost mast) rigged fore and aft. Sometimes, the mizzen is only partly fore-and-aft rigged, b ...
. She sailed to Australia in 1895 but defects were discovered and she was hulked there.
* was a . launched in 1910 and sunk in a collision in 1917.
* was a launched in 1919 and sold for scrapping in 1946.
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Royal Navy ship names