HMS Wolverine (1863)

HMS Wolverine, Sydney, July 1881.
History
Name	HMS Wolverine (also HMS Wolverene)
Builder	Woolwich Dockyard
Laid down	14 April 1859
Launched	29 August 1863
Fate	Given to Colony of New South Wales.
Name	Wolverine
Owner	Colony of New South Wales
Homeport	Sydney
Fate	Sold to Peter Ellison, Sydney for £2200.
Name	Wolverine
Fate	Scrapped and hulk burnt.
General characteristics [1]
Type	Jason-class corvette
Displacement	2,416 tons (as completed)
Tons burthen	1,703 bm
Length	225 ft 0 in (68.6 m) (gundeck) 196 ft 8+1⁄2 in (60.0 m) (keel)
Beam	40 ft 8 in (12.4 m) (overall)
Draught	17 ft 11 in (5.5 m) (forward) 20 ft 4 in (6.2 m) (aft)
Depth of hold	24 ft 2 in (7.4 m)
Installed power	400 nominal horsepower 1,628 indicated horsepower (1,214 kW)[Note 1]
Propulsion	2-cylinder horizontal single-expansion engine 4 × boilers 4 × furnaces Single screw
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Speed	11.3 knots (20.9 km/h)
Complement	c.250
Armament	20 × 8-inch (68pdr/65cwt) muzzle-loading smoothbore broadside guns 1 × pivot-mounted 7-inch (110-pdr/82cwt) Armstrong breech loader

HMS Wolverine (also HMS Wolverene) was a Jason-class three-masted wooden screw corvette, of the Royal Navy. Later she became flagship of the Australia Station, eventually being presented to the Colony of New South Wales as a training ship for the New South Wales Naval Brigade and New South Wales Naval Artillery Volunteers.

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