![]() The Wolf (late of the Royal Navy) making Signal and laying to, for a Pilot off Dover in 1828
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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 |
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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.
Wolf paid off in 1825. The Admiralty listed her for sale at Plymouth on 27 January 1825,[5] and she sold that same day to Thomas S. Benson for £3,1000.[1]
Wolf first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in the volume for 1826.[2]
She underwent several changes of ownership. She was working as a whaler in the Pacific Ocean when she hit an uncharted rock (now called Wolf Rock) on 6 August 1837 off Lord Howe Island, and sank.[6]
Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Notes |
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1826 | W. Christie | Pearl & Co. | London | |
1827 | W. Christie | Pearl & Co. | London | |
1828 | W. Christie | Pearl & Co. | London | |
1829 | Wilson | Captain & Co. | London & Barbados | |
1830 | Wilson/ J. Lewis | Captain & Co. | London–Barbados | |
1831 | J. Lewis | Walker | London–South Seas | |
1832 | J. Lewis | Walker | London–South Seas | |
1833 | J. Lewis | Walker | London–South Seas | |
1834 | J Lewis | London | ||
1835 | J. Lewis | London | ||
1836 | J. Lewis | London | ||
1837 | J. Lewis | London | ||
1838 | J. Lewis | London |