Three 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 borne the name HMS ''Wolfe'', after General

James Wolfe James Wolfe (2 January 1727 – 13 September 1759) was a British Army officer known for his training reforms and, as a major general, remembered chiefly for his victory in 1759 over the French at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in Quebec. ...

, victor of the

Battle of the Plains of Abraham The Battle of the Plains of Abraham, also known as the Battle of Quebec (french: Bataille des Plaines d'Abraham, Première bataille de Québec), was a pivotal battle in the Seven Years' War (referred to as the French and Indian War to describe ...

in 1759. A fourth was laid down but never launched: * was a 20-gun sloop on the Great Lakes. She was launched in 1813, renamed HMS ''Montreal'' in 1814 and was sold in 1832. *HMS ''Wolfe'' was to have been a 104-gun

first rate In the rating system of the British Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a first rate was the designation for the largest ships of the line. Originating in the Jacobean era with the designation of Ships Royal capable of carrying at ...

. She was laid down in 1814 but was cancelled in 1831, with the hull being destroyed on the stocks in a storm in 1832. * HMS ''Wolfe'' was a

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, built as ''Sir James Wolfe'' and ''Wolfe'' before being named before her launch in 1915. She was sold in 1921. * was an armed merchant cruiser requisioned in August 1939, formerly the passenger ship SS ''Montcalm''. She was purchased and converted into a submarine depot ship in 1942 and was broken up in 1952.

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