HMS Wolverine (1798)
Portrait of Wolverine | |
| History | |
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| Great Britain | |
| Name | Rattler |
| Launched | 1796 |
| Fate | Sold 1798 |
| Great Britain | |
| Name | HMS Wolverine |
| Acquired | March 1798 (by purchase) |
| Honours & awards | Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Wolverine 13 Sept. 1799" |
| Fate | Captured and sunk 24 March 1804 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | brig-sloop (ex-collier) |
| Tons burthen | 286 (bm) |
| Length |
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| Beam | 27 ft 6 in (8.4 m) |
| Propulsion | Sails |
| Sail plan | Brig |
| Complement | 70 |
| Armament |
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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.