HMS Wild Boar

Last updated December 25, 2021

Two naval vessels of Britain or the United Kingdom have borne the name Wild Boar or HMS Wild Boar, for the wild boar:

Wild Boar was a flyboat of six guns and 172 tons (bm) that the British navy captured in 1665 and sold in 1667.
HMS Wild Boar (1808) was a Cherokee-class brig-sloop launched at Finsbury in 1808 and lost in the Isles of Scilly in 1810.

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HMS Wild Boar was a brig-sloop launched in 1808. She was wrecked in 1810.

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