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WILDBOAR Built in 1808, Frindsbury (Cherokee class).
Lost in 1810.
  • 1808 Chatham.
  • 1810 Thomas BURTON, Channel Lisbon.
    On the Lisbon station she captured a French schooner carrying some staff officers from Ferrol to Bayonne.
  • Villiers Francis HATTON was appointed to WILDBOAR at the beginning of 1810 but before he could take command she was wrecked on the Rundle Stone, Isles of Scilly on 15 February while returning from the Tagus having landed an army officer with dispatches at Falmouth.
    Twelve men lost their lives.
    Capt. BURTON was cleared at the subsequent court-martial on 23 March and he was appointed to commission the new brig PRIMROSE, but the master was broken.
    Capt. HATTON subsequently commanded PORT MAHON.

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