HMS Wagtail

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Wagtail, 1807
Type: Schooner ; Armament 4
Launched : 1806 ; Disposal date or year : 20 Apr 1807
Disposal Details : Captured by the Murat French privateer, off Altavella. Wrecked. Lieut William Cullis
Notes:

1806 Built in England of the pencil cedar, measure, BOM, from 75 to 78 tons ; mount four 12-pounder carronades, with a crew of 20 men and boys.

1808 a less than complimentary comment on this type of vessel, which, although built in 1806, is included by William James in the volume for 1808, presumably in the light of the experiences of those who had departed them, and the results achieved or otherwise.


Wainscott, 1921
Type: Tug ;
Notes:

NL Jan 1921 Employed by Naval Ordnance Dept at Chatham.


Wakeful, 1917
Type: Destroyer ;
Launched : 1917 ; Disposal date or year : 1940
Notes:

22 Nov 1918 left Rosyth for operations in the Baltic - see p. 646 www.naval-review.org/issues/1921-4.pdf.