Sixteen ships of the
Royal Navy
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have borne the name HMS ''Wolf'' or HMS ''Woolf'', after the mammal the
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* was a 16-gun ship, previously the Spanish ''Lobos''. She was captured in 1656 and sold in 1663.
* was an 8-gun
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launched in 1690 and expended in 1692, destroying the French
* was a 2-gun
sloop launched in 1699. She was captured by the French in 1704 but was recovered in 1708 and sold in 1712.
* was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1731 and wrecked in 1741.
* was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1742, captured by the French in 1745, recaptured in 1747 and wrecked in 1748.
* was a 10-gun sloop launched in 1754 and sold in 1781.
* was an 8-gun armed ship of unknown origin, wrecked in 1780.
* was a 4-gun gunvessel, originally a Dutch
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purchased in 1794. She was broken up in 1803.
*HMS ''Wolf'' was a 16-gun sloop, originally the 18-gun French privateer . captured her in 1798 and the Royal Navy commissioned ''Eugénie'' as HMS ''Pandour''. She was renamed HMS ''Wolf'' in 1800 and broken up in 1802.
* was a
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tender launched in 1801 and broken up in 1829.
* was a 16-gun launched at Dartmouth in 1804. She captured or destroyed four small Spanish or French privateers before she was wrecked on 4 September 1806, with no loss of life, about 1.5 miles off shore on the southwest point of
Heneaga in the Bahamas. The loss was blamed on a northward current and inaccurate charts.
*HMS ''Wolf'' was the French 16-gun brig-sloop ''Diligent'', which captured in 1806. The Royal Navy commissioned her as . She was renamed HMS ''Prudente'' later that year and HMS ''Wolf'' in 1807. She was broken up in 1811.
* was a 14-gun brig-sloop launched in 1814 and sold as a
training ship
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in 1825.
* was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1826, hulked in 1848, used as a coal hulk from 1859 and broken up by 1878.
* was an wooden screw
gunboat
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launched in 1856 and broken up by 1864.
* was an launched in 1897, reclassified as a destroyer in 1913 and sold in 1921.
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References
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* Fonds Marine. Campagnes (opérations; divisions et stations navales; missions diverses). Inventaire de la sous-série Marine BB4. Tome premier : BB4 210 à 482 (1805-1826
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Royal Navy ship names