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HMS Wild Boar (1808)

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The court martial exonerated Burton and blamed the loss on the incompetence of the master. It also described the master's behaviour as reprehensible; when she struck he had jumped into the jolly boat and made off. The court martial ordered him dis-rated, to serve only as a seaman.
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had been sailing from Falmouth to Cork and was passing between Scilly and the mainland when she struck in fine weather on the Runnelstone. She took on water so quickly most of the crew had to jump into the sea.
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was on the Lisbon station she captured a French schooner carrying some staff officers from Ferrol to Bayonne. She returned from the Tagus to land at Falmouth an army officer with dispatches.
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at the beginning of 1810 but before he could take command she was wrecked on 15 February on the
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The courtmartial of Burton and his crew took place on 23 March. It found that
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had left Falmouth on the 15th with dispatches for Lisbon.
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fortuitously and fortunately was in sight and came to
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British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650–1859
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Index

HMS Wild Boar
Cherokee-class
brig-sloop
bm
carronades
bow chasers
brig-sloop
Lloyd's List
Runnel Stone
HMS Primrose
Winfield (2008)
"No. 16347"
The London Gazette
Lloyd's List №4355.


Marshall (1828)
Lloyd's List №4434.



Hepper (1994)
Register of Shipping (1811), Seq.№E39.
ISBN
0-948864-30-3
Marshall, John
"Burton, Thomas" 
Royal Naval Biography
ISBN
978-1-86176-246-7

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