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was one of thirty cutters purchased by the Royal Navy in a three-month period from
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s purchase but before completion of her fitout or assembling of her crew. Despite this, commissioning went ahead in April 1763 and the vessel entered the Navy as a coastal cutter for the Port of
Liverpool. Her first commander was 26-year-old Lieutenant Skeffington Lutwidge who would later go on to
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Admiralty Orders for her purchase were issued on 29 December 1762, and the transaction was completed on 8 February 1763 at a cost of £650. She was a small craft, single-masted and with an overall length of 57 ft 4 in (17.5 m) including bowsprit, a 44 ft 1 in (13.4 m)
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for refitting. Works ran for two months until the end of April, at a cost of £817. Prior to purchase she had been fitted for merchant voyaging including eight three-pounder guns. In recognition of her future operations within the safer confines of a major seaport, the Navy reduced the number of
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s commander by
Lieutenant Robert Edgcombe, who served aboard for two years. In 1769 he was superseded by Lieutenant Hally Borwick, who served for a single year before passing command to Thomas Cunningham. Lieutenant Cunningham remained with
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tons burthen. Her beam was 18 ft 5 in (5.6 m). At the time she was purchased by the Navy, she had been at sea as a merchant vessel for at least fifteen years.
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were stationed in major seaports in order to intercept these craft and deliver those on board to the press gang in the port.
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for eight years from 1763, and was briefly under the command of
Lieutenant (and future Admiral)
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seamen on beaches outside the port proper. During the
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