High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Wolverine (or Wolverene) was a Royal Navy 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop, launched in 1805 at Topsham, near Exeter. Early in her career she was involved in two fratricidal incidents, one involving a British frigate and then a newsworthy case in which she helped capture a British slave ship. She later captured several privateers and took part in the invasion of Martinique. Wolverine was decommissioned in August or September 1815 and was sold on 15 February 1816.