Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...

 have borne the name HMS Wolf or HMS Woolf, after the mammal the wolf:
was a 16-gun ship, previously the Spanish Lobos. She was captured in 1656 and sold in 1663. was an 8-gun fireship launched in 1690 and expended in 1692, destroying the French Triomphant

French ship Le Triomphant (1675)

The Triomphant was a ship of the line of the French Navy.Launched in Brest in 1675 as Constant, she was renamed Triomphant in 1678. She took part in the Battle of Beachy Head on 10 July 1690, and in the Battle of Barfleur on 29 May 1692. She caught fire and was destroyed on 1 June 1692 while...

 was a 2-gun sloop

Sloop-of-war

In the 18th and most of the 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. As the rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above, this meant that the term sloop-of-war actually encompassed all the unrated combat vessels including the...

 launched in 1699. She was captured by the French in 1704 but was recovered in 1708 and sold in 1712. was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1731 and wrecked in 1741. was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1742, captured by the French in 1745, recaptured in 1747 and wrecked in 1748. was a 10-gun sloop launched in 1754 and sold in 1781. was an 8-gun armed ship of unknown origin, wrecked in 1780. was a 4-gun gunvessel, originally a Dutch hoy

Hoy (boat)

A hoy was a small sloop-rigged coasting ship or a heavy barge used for freight, usually displacing about 60 tons. The word derives from the Middle Dutch hoey. In 1495, one of the Paston Letters included the phrase, An hoye of Dorderycht , in such a way as to indicate that such contact was then...

 purchased in 1794. She was broken up in 1803.

• HMS Wolf was a 16-gun sloop, originally the French Eugenie. She was captured in 1798 and commissioned as , renamed HMS Wolf in 1800 and broken up in 1802. was a cutter tender launched in 1801 and broken up in 1829. was a 16-gun brig-sloop launched in 1804 and wrecked in 1806, with no loss of life, about 1.5 miles off shore on the SW point of Heneager in the Bahamas. The loss was blamed on a northward current and inaccurate charts.
• HMS Wolf was a 16-gun brig-sloop captured from the French in 1806 and commissioned as . She was renamed HMS Prudente later that year and HMS Wolf in 1807. She was broken up in 1811. was a 14-gun brig-sloop launched in 1814 and sold as a training ship in 1825. was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1826, hulked in 1848, used as a coal hulk from 1859 and broken up by 1878. was an Albacore class wooden screw gunboat
  Gunboat
  A gunboat is a naval watercraft designed for the express purpose of carrying one or more guns to bombard coastal targets, as opposed to those military craft designed for naval warfare, or for ferrying troops or supplies.-History:...
  
   launched in 1856 and broken up by 1864. was an Earnest class
  Earnest class destroyer
  Six Earnest-class destroyers served with the Royal Navy: Earnest, Griffon, Locust, Panther, Seal and Wolf. These ships were all built by Cammell Laird and were part of the class of 'thirty knotters'....
  
   destroyer
  Destroyer
  In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller, powerful, short-range attackers. Destroyers, originally called torpedo-boat destroyers in 1892, evolved from...
  
   launched in 1897, reclassified as a B class
  B class destroyer (1913)
  The B class as designated in 1913 was a heterogeneous group of torpedo boat destroyers built for the Royal Navy in the late 1890s. They were constructed to the individual designs of their builders to meet Admiralty specifications, the uniting feature being a specified top speed of and 4 funnels,...
  
  destroyer in 1913 and sold in 1921.