HMS Wolf (1814)

The Wolf (late of the Royal Navy) making Signal and laying to, for a Pilot off Dover in 1828
History
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Wolf
Ordered8 August 1810
BuilderWoolwich Dockyard (M/s Edward Sison)
Laid downAugust 1812
Launched16 September 1814
FateSold 27 January 1825
United Kingdom
NameWolf
Acquired1825 by purchase
FateWrecked 1837
General characteristics [1]
Class and typeCrocus-class brig-sloop
TypeBrig-sloop
Tons burthen2525494, or 263,[2] or 265 (bm)
Length
  • Overall: 92 ft (28.0 m)
  • Keel: 72 ft 6+58 in (22.1 m)
Beam25 ft 7 in (7.8 m)
Depth of hold12 ft 8+12 in (3.9 m)
Sail planBrig rigged
Complement86
Armament

HMS Wolf was a 14-gun brig of the Royal Navy that was launched in 1814 from Woolwich Dockyard, too late for the war. The Navy sold her 1825 and she then became a merchant and whale fishing vessel. She was wrecked in the South Seas in 1837.

  1. ^ Winfield (2008), p. 310.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference LR1826 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).