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Arthur Fleming Morrell (10 November 1788 – 13 September 1880) was British officer of the Royal Navy, an explorer, and a colonial administrator of Ascension Island, who saw service spanning the end of the Napoleonic era and well into the Victorian era. == Early naval career == Arthur Morrell was born in 1788 in Stoke Damerel, Devon,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=https://www.familysearch.org/s/recordDetails/show?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fpilot.familysearch.org%2Frecords%2Ftrk%3A%2Ffsrs%2Frr_956895169%2Fp1&hash=HloWXpZgU9zB10k5M56iYku8TUc%253D )〕 the second son of a Royal Navy lieutenant, John Morrell. His father had been an able seaman, rising to the warrant officer's rank of gunner by the time his sons entered the Royal Navy. Morrell's brother was John Arthur Morrell, who became a commander and served aboard HMS ''Eagle'' during an 1806 attack on Naples, then held by Napoleon's brother, Joseph Bonaparte. Morrell joined the Royal Navy at the age of about twelve or thirteen as a first class volunteer. He served first on HMS ''Doris'', a 38-gun fifth rate ship in the Channel fleet that took several French ships as prizes during the years Morrell served on her. He then moved to the Caribbean on board HMS ''Pique'', and was by now a Master's mate. It was aboard ''Pique'', a captured French ship formerly named ''Pallas'', that he would take part in the 1803 blockade of Saint-Domingue, serving off Cape Francois, at what is now Haiti. A boat from the ''Pique'', commanded by Lieutenant Nesbit Josiah Willoughby, was dispatched to capture the French frigate ''Clorinde'' as she fled the rebellious Haitians led by Jean-Jacques Dessalines. Morrell was part of the crew that brought ''Clorinde'' under a British flag to Jamaica.〔 ''Pique'' later took part in an abortive attempt to capture Curaçao, which in 1804 had been retaken from Britain by a Dutch-French force. After nine years in the Caribbean, Morrell found himself in the Mediterranean, in a succession of ships including HMS ''Termagant'', from which he beheld the fall of Genoa in 1814, one of his last naval actions during the Napoleonic Wars. At the end of hostilities, Britain turned to Arctic exploration to employ its navy and to attempt to discover a shorter route to the resource-rich Pacific. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arthur Fleming Morrell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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