_Hawke_ | 21 | _Princess Royal_ | 7 |
_Ranger_ | 20 | _Ann_ | 7 |
_Nimble_ | 17 | _Fairy_ | 7 |
_Desmond_ | 17 | _Ferret_ | 7 |
_Sprightly_ | 17 | _Lady of the Lake_ | 5 |
_Lion_ | 16 | _Vulcan_ (steamer) | 31 |
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_Note_.--The size of the above varied from 25 tons to 164 tons. But
the ss. _Vulcan_ was of 325 tons.

APPENDIX VIII

No better instance of the strained relationship existing between the
Royal Navy and the Revenue Service could be found than the following.
It will be seen that the animosity had begun at any rate before the
end of the seventeenth century and was very far from dead in the
nineteenth.

The first incident centres round Captain John Rutter, commander of
"one of the smacks or sloops in the service of the Customs about the
Isle of Wight." He stated that on April 24, 1699, about eight o'clock
in the evening, he went on board to search the ship _Portland_ at
Spithead, the latter having arrived from France with a cargo of wine.
At the same time there put off the long boat from Admiral Hopson's
_Resolution_ demanding four hogsheads and four tierces, which (said
Rutter) "I denied, but however they took it out by force and carried
it on board." Rutter then went on to the _Resolution_ and there found
the wine lying on deck. The Admiral sent for him aft, and said that he
would see the wine forthcoming, for he would write to the
Commissioners of Customs.

Some time afterwards Rutter was ashore at Portsmouth in company with
Captain Foulks, who was one of the officers stationed on land. The
latter informed Rutter that he was a rogue for having informed against
the Admiral. Foulks drew his sword, and, had he not been prevented,
would have murdered Rutter. Apparently Admiral Hopson never forgave
Rutter. For, some months later, Rutter was riding off Portsmouth
"with my Pendent and Colours flying, rejoicing for the happy arrival
of His Maty." Hopson was being rowed ashore, and when near "my yacht
ordered my pendent to be taken down. I being absent, my men would not
do it without my order, whereon he sent his boat on board and one of
his men took it down. I coming on board to goe upon my duty ordered it
to be hoysted again and ime