HMS Magpie

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

• The first {{HMS|Magpie|1806}} was a 4-gun schooner launched in 1806 and captured by the French in 1807.
• The second {{HMS|Magpie|1826}} was launched at Jamaica in 1826 as the name vessel of her class. She was lost off Cuba two months after her launch.
• The third {{HMS|Magpie|1830}} 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.
• The fourth {{HMS|Magpie|1855}} was a {{sclass|Dapper|gunboat|0}} screw gunboat launched in 1855 and wrecked in 1864.
• The fifth {{HMS|Magpie|1868}} was a {{sclass|Plover|gunvessel|0}} screw gunboat launched in 1868, used as a survey vessel after 1878, and sold in 1885.
• The sixth {{HMS|Magpie|1889}} was a {{sclass|Redbreast|gunboat|0}} 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.
• The seventh {{HMS|Magpie|U82}}, later F82, was a Modified Black Swan-class sloop launched in 1943 and broken up after 1959.
• The eighth {{HMS|Magpie|1982}} was the trawler Hondo purchased in 1982 and used until 1996 for target practice.
• The ninth {{HMS|Magpie|H130}} is an inshore survey vessel, commissioned on 28 June 2018.