HMS Wolverine (1805)

HM Brig Wolverene beating the Squadron
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Wolverine
Ordered	7 November 1803
Builder	Thomas Owen, Topsham
Laid down	February 1804
Launched	1 March 1805
Decommissioned	Aug/Sept. 1815
Honours and awards	Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Martinique"[1]
Fate	Sold 15 February 1816
General characteristics [2]
Class and type	Cruizer-class brig-sloop
Tons burthen	387 bm
Length	100 ft 1+1⁄2 in (30.5 m) (gundeck) 77 ft 4+1⁄2 in (23.6 m) (keel)
Beam	30 ft 8 in (9.3 m)
Depth of hold	12 ft 9 in (3.9 m)
Sail plan	Brig rigged
Complement	121
Armament	16 × 32-pounder carronades + 2 × 6-pounder bow guns

HMS Wolverine (or Wolverene) was a Royal Navy 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop, launched in 1805 at Topsham, near Exeter.^[2] Early in her career she was involved in two fratricidal incidents, one involving a British frigate and then a newsworthy case in which she helped capture a British slave ship. She later captured a small naval vessel and several privateers, and took part in the invasion of Martinique, and during the War of 1812, in the attack on Baltimore. Wolverine was decommissioned in August or September 1815 and was sold on 15 February 1816.