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A fact from HMS Doterel (1808) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 July 2016 ( check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that HMS Doterel created a diversion while a fireship attack was carried out during the Battle of the Basque Roads? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2016/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/HMS Doterel (1808).

I have named this article HMS Doterel (1808) because this is consistent with similar articles such as HMS Pickle (1800), HMS Beagle (1804), HMS Speedy (1782) etc, and because there were a large amount of existing incoming redlinks for this name. If you disagree, by all means initiate a requested move to HM Brig-sloop or similar but please bear in mind the aforementioned issues.