Lapwing (ship)

Several vessels have been named Lapwing, after the northern lapwing, a species of bird:

• Lapwing (1787 sloop) traded between London and Africa for the St George's Bay Company. Later she became a packet and coaster.
• Lapwing (1794 ship) was launched at Bristol and lengthened in 1797. She was a West Indiaman until in 1801 she became a slave ship. However, on her first slave trading voyage a Spanish privateer captured her. Although the Spanish authorities ordered her restitution to her owners, it is not clear that the order was anything but moot.

See also[]

• HMS Lapwing – any one of eight vessels of the British Royal Navy
• Lapwing (EIC packet ship) – any one of three packets that served the British East India Company

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