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- Citations and references
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}} | HMS Wolf was a 14-gun brig of the Royal Navy that was launched in 1814 from Woolwich Dockyard, too late for the war. The Navy sold her 1825 and she then became a merchant and whale fishing vessel. She was wrecked in the South Seas in 1837. Naval careerWolf sailed to Sheerness on 22 September 1814. Commander Bernard Yeoman commissioned her on 5 December 1819 for the Cork station. He then sailed her on 27 February 1819. She served on the Irish Station in 1819. When His Majesty King George visited Dublin in 1821, Wolf was part of the naval escort.[2] Yeoman frequently dined with His Majesty on HMY Royal George, and while the king was in Dublin, Yeoman lived with the household, attended the king in public, and was generally considered as forming part of the royal suite.[3] Commercial serviceWolf paid off in 1825. The Admiralty listed her for sale at Plymouth on 27 January 1825,[4] and she sold that same day to Thomas S. Benson for £3,1000.[1]She underwent several changes of ownership. She was working as a whaler in the Pacific Ocean when she hit an uncharted rock (now called Wolf Rock) on 6 August 1837 off Lord Howe Island, and sank.[5] | Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Notes |
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| 1826 | W. Christie | Pearl & Co, | London | | 1827 | W. Christie | Pearl & Co, | London | | 1828 | W. Christie | Pearl & Co, | London | | 1829 | Wilson | Captain & Co. | London & Barbados | | 1830 | Wilson/ J. Lewis | Captain & Co. | London & Barbados | | 1831 | J. Lewis | Walker | London & South Seas | | 1832 | J. Lewis | Walker | London & South Seas | | 1833 | J. Lewis | Walker | London & South Seas | | 1834 | J Lewis | London | | 1835 | J. Lewis | London | | 1836 | J. Lewis | London | | 1837 | J. Lewis | London | | 1838 | J. Lewis | London | |
Citations and referencesCitations1. ^1 Winfield (2008), p. 310.
2. ^Parry (1851), p.420.
3. ^Marshall (1832), Vol. 3, Part 2, p. 143.
4. ^{{London Gazette|issue=18097|page=44|date=8 January 1825}}
5. ^{{cite web |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2212952?searchTerm=wolf+wrecked |title=The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, Saturday 16 September 1837, p.2. |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date= |work= |publisher= |accessdate=26 August 2010}}
References- Marshall, John' (1823–1835) Royal naval biography, or, Memoirs of the services of all the flag-officers, superannuated rear-admirals, retired-captains, post-captains, and commanders, whose names appeared on the Admiralty list of sea officers at the commencement of the present year 1823, or who have since been promoted ... (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown).
- Parry, Edward (1851) Royal visits and progresses to Wales, and the border counties.
- {{cite book |first=Rif|last=Winfield|title=British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates|publisher=Seaforth|year=2008|isbn=1861762461}}
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