{| {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class=Admiralty modified W-class destroyer |Ship displacement=*1,140 tons standard 1,550 tons full load |Ship length= o/a, p/p |Ship beam= |Ship draught=, under full load |Ship propulsion=Yarrow type Water-tube boilers, Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, 2 shafts, 27,000 shp |Ship speed= |Ship range=*320-370 tons oil at at |Ship complement=127 |Ship sensors=*Type 286M Air Warning Radar fitted 1941 Type 271 Target Indication Radar fitted 1942 |Ship EW= |Ship armament=*As built 1920: 4 × BL 4.7 in (120-mm) Mk.I guns, mount P Mk.I 2 × QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39) 6 × 21-inch torpedo tubes (2×3) "1942 SRE conversion:3 × BL 4.7 in (120mm) Mk.I L/45 guns 1 × QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval gun 2 × QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40mm L/39) 3 × 21-inch torpedo tubes (1×3) 2 × depth charge racks Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar (replaced 'A' turret 1944) |Ship armour= |Ship notes= }} |} HMS Wolverine was an Admiralty modified W-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She was one of four destroyers ordered in April 1918 from James Samuel White & Co Ltd under the 14th Order for Destroyers of the Emergency War Programme of 1917–18. She was the seventh Royal Navy Ship to carry the name. It had been introduced in 1798 for a gun brig and last borne by a destroyer sunk after a collision in 1917. ConstructionWolverines keel was laid on 8 October 1918 at the James Samuel White & Co. Ltd. Shipyard in Cowes, Isle of Wight. She was launched on 17 July 1919. She was overall in length with a beam of . Her mean draught was, and would reach under full load. She had a displacement of 1,140 tons standard and up to 1,550 full load. She was propelled by three White-Foster type water-tube boilers powering Parsons geared steam turbines developing driving two screws for a maximum designed speed of . She was oil-fired and had a bunkerage of 320 to 370 tons. This gave a range of between at and at . She shipped four BL 4.7 in (120 mm) Mk.I guns, mount P Mk.I naval guns in four single center-line turrets. The turrets were disposed as two forward and two aft in super imposed firing positions. She also carried two QF 2 pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39) mounted abeam between the funnels. Abaft of the second funnel she