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} |} HMS ''Wolf'' was a 14-gun snow-rigged sloop of the Royal Navy, launched in 1742 as the first of three ''Wolf'' class sloops constructed for action against Spanish privateers during the War of Jenkins' Ear.〔Winfield 2007, p.300〕 == Construction == ''Wolf'' was the first of three small, fast vessels built for coastal patrol and Atlantic service and designated by Admiralty as the "Wolf" class. Her design was similar to that of the preceding ''Drake'' class sloops but larger and more heavily armed. Construction was contracted to civilian shipwright Thomas West, who had overseen construction of a year earlier. As designed, ''Wolf''s dimensions were in keeping with other vessels of her class with an overall length of , a beam of and measuring 243 tonnes burthen. She had two masts, square-rigged and supported by a trysail mast aft of the main mast.〔 Two decks were fitted instead of one, reflecting the design of her predecessor, the 1731 .〔McLaughlan 2014, p. 169〕 Constructed with eight pairs of gunports, she was initially supplied with fourteen four-pounder cannons in addition to twelve deck-mounted half-pounder swivel guns.〔 Construction took seven months from the laying of the keel in July 1741 to launch in February 1742, at a building cost of £1,793 and an additional ₤1653 for fitting out.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Wolf (1742)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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