HMS Bustler

Two vessels have served the British Royal Navy as HMS Bustler:

• HMS Bustler (1782) was the mercantile Shillelagh, which the Admiralty purchased in January 1782. She was sold in 1788 and returned to mercantile service. In 1793 she became a privateer and made one notable capture. She then became a West Indiaman that the French captured in 1795.
• HMS Bustler (1805) was a brig that the French captured in 1808 when she grounded near Cape Gris-Nez and attempts to burn her failed. The French Navy took her into service as Bustler. The British recaptured her in 1813 while she was serving as station ship at Zierickzee after attempts to scuttle her failed.
• was a tug built at Leith in 1942 that participated in Operation Overlord.

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• Bustler was an iron dockyard paddle tug of 346 GRT. She had been launched in 1890 as Conqueror and the British Government purchased her in 1896 for service at Gibraltar. She was sold there in November 1921. She may have flown the Blue Ensign of a Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

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