Six ships of the
Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Wolverine'', or the alternative spelling ''Wolverene'', after the
wolverine:
* was a 14-gun
brig-sloop, 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
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launched in 1863. She was sent to
Australia
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as a
training ship in 1881, and then converted to a mercantile
barque. 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