HMS Polly

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Polly, 1799
Type: tender ; Armament ?
Notes:

[These notes may not be for the same vessel, but FWTW].

11 Mar 1799 Plymouth, arrived the Polly tender, Lieutenant Ward, with Volunteers from Greenoch, for the Navy. She experienced the fury of the gale at N.W. when the Weazle sloop of war foundered off Hartland Point, but weathered it and got safe into the Bristol Channel.

11 Jul 1800 Plymouth, arrived the Polly cutter from the fleet [off Brest], left them all well yesterday.

3 Nov 1801 parted her anchors in a gale at Plymouth, and was blown on the rocks on the eastern side of the Sound.

24 Nov 1801 this morning the Polly tender, wrecked on the rocks near the Leek Beds, Plymouth, in the gale of the 2d instant, was this day floated off by means of empty casks, and is now in Sutton Pool.