The Wolf (late of the Royal Navy) making Signal and laying to, for a Pilot off Dover in 1828
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Wolf |
Ordered | 8 August 1810 |
Builder | Woolwich Dockyard (M/s Edward Sison) |
Laid down | August 1812 |
Launched | 16 September 1814 |
Fate | Sold 27 January 1825 |
United Kingdom | |
Name | Wolf |
Acquired | 1825 by purchase |
Fate | Wrecked 1837 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type | Crocus-class brig-sloop |
Type | Brig-sloop |
Tons burthen | 25254⁄94, or 263,[2] or 265 (bm) |
Length |
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Beam | 25 ft 7 in (7.8 m) |
Depth of hold | 12 ft 8+1⁄2 in (3.9 m) |
Sail plan | Brig rigged |
Complement | 86 |
Armament |
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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.
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