HMS Seagull

Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Seagull or HMS Sea Gull, after the gull:[Note 1]

Other Seagulls in Royal Navy service

  • 1796: When the British captured Demerara, they captured, among other vessels, a 12-gun cutter, Zeemeeuw (Seagull), which they took into service as Seagull and put under the command of a Lieutenant Lloyd; she apparently foundered soon after. She was possibly the 8th Charter Zeemeeuw, built at Zeeland and launched c.1781 that disappears from the Dutch records in 1796. Her dimensions, in Dutch feet of 11 Rotterdam inches, were 58'½ x 20' x 7' 7/11".[2]
  • 1817: There was a Seagull that was a tender and that shared prize money with HMS Northumberland for some glass captured on Mary.[Note 2]

See also

  • Revenue cutters Seagull and Fox captured the French privateer Friedland on 15 October 1807.[4] Friedland was armed with two guns and small arms, and had a crew of 35 men. She was two days out of Cherbourg and had made no captures. The revenue cutters took her into Cowes.[5]
  • There may have been a HM Revenue cutter Seagull launched in 1814 and in service until 1825.
  • RMAS Seagull

Notes

  1. The underlying reason is that around 1810, +/- a decade, English spelling for a number of words changed abruptly. Until 1800-10s, notices in the London Gazette used the spelling Sea Gull; afterwards they used the spelling Seagull.
  2. A first-class share was worth £13 2s 0d; a fifth-class share, that of an able seamen, was worth 18s 0½d.[3]

Citations

  1. Hepper (1994), p.110.
  2. van Maanen.
  3. "No. 17531". The London Gazette. 2 November 1819. p. 1945.
  4. "No. 16309". The London Gazette. 24 October 1809. p. 1693.
  5. Lloyd's Marine List, - accessed 30 November 2013.

References

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