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HMS Wolverine (1798)
HMS ''Wolverine'' (or ''Wolverene'', or ''Woolverene''), was a Royal Navy 14-gun brig-sloop, formerly the civilian collier ''Rattler'', which was purchased in 1798 and converted into a brig sloop, but armed experimentally. She served during the French Revolutionary Wars and participated in one action that won for her crew a clasp to the Naval General Service Medal. A French privateer captured and sank ''Wolverine'' on 21 March 1804 whilst she was on convoy duty.
==Armament==
Unusually for a brig-sloop, she was virtually a two-deck vessel as the waist between forecastle and quarterdeck was filled in to form a continuous flush deck. The upper deck below this flush deck carried six 24-pounder carronades and two 18-pounder long guns mounted on centreline pivots, which could be trained on either side of the vessel by running along grooves set into the deck; she had eight gunports cut on either side to accommodate these guns. On the flush deck above she additionally carried six 12-pounder carronades (two forwards and four on the quarterdeck).〔
This experimental system of carrying her armament was devised by Captain John Schank, RN so that the gun carriages on her upper deck could be shifted from side to side as required.〔Winfield (2008), p.292.〕
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