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HMS Wolf (1814)

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Name
  
HMS Wolf

Laid down
  
August 1812

Name
  
Wolf

Construction started
  
August 1812

Ordered
  
8 August 1810

Fate
  
Sold 27 January 1825

Acquired
  
1825 by purchase

Launched
  
16 September 1814

HMS Wolf was a 14-gun brig of the Royal Navy that was launched in 1814 from Woolwich Dockyard, too late for the war.

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Wolf She sailed to Sheerness on 22 September 1814.

Commander Bernard Yeoman commissioned her on 5 December 1819 for the Cork station. He then sailed her on 27 February 1819. She served on the Irish Station in 1819.

When His Majesty King George visited Dublin in 1821, Wolf was part of the naval escort. Yeoman frequently dined with His Majesty on HMY Royal George, and while the king was in Dublin, Yeoman lived with the household, attended the king in public, and was generally considered as forming part of the royal suite.

Commercial service

Wolf paid off in 1825. The Admiralty listed her for sale at Plymouth on 27 January 1825, and she sold that same day to Thomas S. Benson for £3,1000.

She underwent several changes of ownership and 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.

References

HMS Wolf (1814) Wikipedia


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