HMS Wolverine (D78) was a 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...

 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...

, which saw service during the Second World War. She was the seventh ship to bear that name.
Wolverine was built by J.S. White & Co.

J. Samuel White

J. Samuel White was a British shipbuilding firm based in Cowes, taking its name from John Samuel White . It came to prominence during the Victorian era...

 shortly after the First World War

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

. Part of a class of sixteen ships, she was commissioned in 1920 and completed for service in 1924. Wolverine was a modification of the W-class destroyer

V and W class destroyer

The V and W class was an amalgam of six similar classes of destroyer built for the Royal Navy under the War Emergency Programme of the First World War and generally treated as one class...

 and carried a light armament for a ship her size.

After completion she joined the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla and served in the Atlantic and Mediterranean Fleets, before being relegated to the Navy Reserve as an austerity measure.