Several ships of the
Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Doterel'', after the wading bird more often spelled "
dotterel":
*, a launched on 6 October 1808, hulked in 1827 and broken up in about 1855.
*, the ex-Post Office wooden paddle packet ''Escape'', purchased in 1837 and disposed of in 1850.
*, a launched on 5 July 1860 and sold to Marshall of Plymouth on 6 June 1871.
*, a
sloop
A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sa ...
launched in 1880. She sank off the coast of Punta Arenas after an explosion on 26 April 1881 with the loss of 143 lives.
*, a yacht requisitioned in 1918 subsequently renamed ''Dotter''
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Royal Navy ship names