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WOLVERINE
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Built in 1805, Topsham (Cruizer class).
Sold in 1816. |
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- 1805 J. SMITH, Leeward Is.
- On 31 January 1806, some 180 miles to windward of Barbados, he captured a French privateer schooner PETITE CONFIANCE after a long chase during which one of her three guns had been thrown overboard. She had a crew of 50 and had been out of Guadeloupe for a month without taking any prizes.
- 1806 Francis Aug. COLLIER, West Indies.
- On 12 May 1806 he captured the French national schooner TREMEUSE, out of Guadeloupe, after a chase of fifteen hours. She was armed with two 9-pounders carronades and one long 6-pounders and carried 53 men.
- 1808 J. SIMPSON, Leeward Is. He transferred to GOREE.
- 1809 Joseph SPEARE, Leeward Is.
- On the morning of 12 April 1809 he arrived at the Admiralty office with Rear-Ad. COCHRANE's dispatches announcing the surrender of Martinique.
- 1811 Charles KERR, Spithead. A seaman, Edward EATON, was tried by court martial on 7 October on a charge of absenting himself without leave and taking away one of the ship's boats. He was sentenced to 300 lashes.
- 1812 Ditto cruising in Channel. Close in to the town of Barfleur on the afternoon of the 7 October 1813 WOLVERINE captured a French lugger No. 961 belonging to the Cherbourg flotilla. Mounting six guns she was commanded by Lieut. Berard.
- 1814 Ditto, Spithead for America.
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