Kittiwake was purchased in March 1921 in the Baltic to replace Slug; bought in Reval for £25 with a windfall from an American paper. She was named after the gull in Coward's British Birds. They made a number of short voyages in her, and liked sitting on her cabin roof in late evening in Baltic Port, listening to an accordion being played in a schooner across the water. She was replaced by Racundra, as even with scrap-iron ballast she seemed to be in danger of turning over, and they wanted a boat they could live on for months on end.