HMS Magpie

Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Magpie, after the bird, the magpie:

HMS Magpie was a 4-gun schooner launched in 1806 and captured by the French in 1807.
HMS Magpie was a 5-gun schooner launched in 1826 and wrecked off Cuba two months later.
HMS Magpie was a 4-gun cutter launched in 1830, used for dockyard service after 1845, being renamed YC6. She was in service until at least 1880, and was possibly sold in 1908.
HMS Magpie was a Dapper class screw gunboat launched in 1855 and wrecked in 1864.
HMS Magpie was a screw gunvessel launched in 1868, used as a survey vessel after 1878, and sold in 1885.
HMS Magpie was a screw gunboat launched in 1889. She was used as a boom defence vessel from 1902, reverting to a gunboat in 1915, before being transferred for use as a depot ship later that year. She was sold in 1921.
HMS Magpie was a Modified Black Swan class sloop launched in 1943 and broken up after 1959.
HMS Magpie was the trawler Hondo purchased in 1982 and used until 1996 for target practice.

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