Six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Wolverine, or the alternative spelling Wolverene, after the wolverine: was a 14-gun brig-sloop, previously the civilian collier Rattler. She was purchased and converted in 1798 and sunk in action in 1804. was an 18-gun launched in 1805 and sold in 1816. was a 16-gun launched in 1836 and wrecked in 1855. was a wooden screw corvette launched in 1863. She was sent to Australia as a training ship in 1881, and then converted to a mercantile barque. She sailed to Australia in 1895 but defects were discovered and she was hulked there. was a . launched in 1910 and sunk in a collision in 1917. was a launched in 1919 and sold for scrapping in 1946. Royal Navy ship names