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} |} The ''Lautaro'' was initially the British East Indiaman ''Windham'',〔Carlos Lopez Urrutia, ''Historia de la Marina de Chile'', Editorial Andres Bello, page 31 and 420, (url )〕 built by Perry, Wells & Green at the Blackwall Shipyard for the East India Company (EIC) and launched in 1800.〔Gerardo Etcheverry, (Principales naves de guerra a vela hispanoamericanas ), retrieved on 25 January 2011〕 She made six voyages to India and China for the EIC. In 1809-10, the French captured her twice, but the British also recaptured her twice. The Chilean Navy bought her in 1818 and she then served in the Chilean Navy, taking part in several actions during the liberation wars in Chile and Peru. From 1824 she was a training ship until she was sold in 1828. ==East India Company== ''Windham'' (sometimes listed as ''Wyndham'') performed six voyages for the EIC between 31 March 1801 and 25 June 1817, sailing to India from England, and back.〔(National Archives (United Kingdom): Windham (2) - Accessed 16 October 2015. )〕 Because she sailed during wartime, her owners arranged for to sail under a letter of marque, which gave her the right to take enemy vessels as prizes should the opportunity arise. ;First voyage (1801-02) Her first letter of marque was dated 14 January 1801 and gave the name of her captain as Thomas Grantham.〔 ''Windham''s first voyage was to China. She left Portsmouth on 31 March 1801 and reached Saint Helena on 10 June and Whampoa on 7 October. On her return leg she crossed the Second Bar on 21 January 1802, reached Saint Helena on 12 April, and The Downs on 12 June.〔 ;Second voyage (1803-1804) With the outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars in mid-1803, Graham received a new letter of marque dated 2 July 1803.〔 This voyage took Windham to Madras and Bengal. She left The Downs on 11 February 1803 and reached Tincomallee on 16 June and Madras on 27 June. From these she sailed up and down the Indian coast, reaching Masulipatam on 7 August, Vizagapatam on 9 August, and Diamond Harbour on 21 August. Coming out of Calcutta she reached Kedgeree on 18 September and Madras on 16 October. She then returned to Diamond Harbour on 13 December. On the journey back to Britain she was back at Saugor on 5 January 1804, Vizagapatam on 27 January and Madras on 21 February. ''Windham'' was at Saint Helena between 24 March and 28 June, and reached The Downs on 9 October.〔 ''Windham'' had travelled from St Helena in convoy with the East Indiamen ''City of London'', ''Ceylon'', and ''Calcutta'', two vessels from the South Seas, ''Lively'' and ''Vulture'', and the ''Rolla'', which had transported convicts to New South Wales. Their escort was .〔''The Times'', 12 October 1804.〕 On the way the convoy ran into severe weather with the result that the ''Prince of Wales'', which had also left St Helena with the rest, foundered with the loss of all on board; this had been her maiden voyage.〔(National Archives: Prince of Wales (8) - accessed 31 July 2015. )〕〔 ;Third voyage (1805-06) She received a third letter on 26 January 1805 that named John Stewart as her captain.〔 Stewart sailed her on her third, fourth and fifth voyages. Her third voyage took ''Windham'' to Madras and China. She left Portsmouth on 8 March 1805 and reached Madras on 21 July. From there she reached Penang on 26 March, Malacca on 15 September, and Whampoa on 20 December. She crossed the Second Bar on 28 February 1806, and again reached Penang on 26 March. From there she was at Saint Helena on 17 June and The Downs by 14 August.〔 ;Fourth voyage (1807-08) ''Windham''s fourth voyage took her to Bengal and Benkulen. She left Portsmouth on 21 June 1807 and reached Diamond Harbour on 15 November and Kidderpore on 9 December. On her next leg she reached Saugor on 31 January 1808 and Benkulen on 28 March. Between 20 April and 17 June she was at Saint Helena, and she returned to The Downs on 14 August.〔 ;Fifth voyage (1809-11) - capture and recapture It was on ''Windham''s fifth voyage that the French captured her twice, and the British recaptured her twice. ''Windham'' left Portsmouth on 7 July 1809 for Bengal. She reached Madeira on 19 July.〔 During the Mauritius campaign of 1809–1811 the French frigate ''Vénus'' captured her and two other Indiamen in the Action of 18 November 1809. In the action the ''Windham'' had six men killed and 18 wounded. The British frigate under Captain Lucius Curtis recaptured her on 29 December. In February 1810 ''Windham'' was at the Cape of Good Hope. Stewart and her crew rejoined her, having arrived there in a cartel. ''Windham'' resumed her journey, only to fall afoul of the French frigate ''Bellone'' near Johanna Island at the Action of 3 July 1810. recaptured ''Windham'' at the Battle of Grand Port on 21 August 1810 and sent her with a prize crew to Île Bourbon. There ''Windham'' received a new crew and captain, Joseph Lautour. She and another recaptured Indiaman, the ''Ceylon'', arrived back in Britain in April 1811. ''Ceylon'' brought with her a cargo from Île Bourbon and ''Windham'' one from Isle de France (now Mauritius).〔''The Annual register of world events: a review of the year'' (1812), Vol. 52, p.265.〕 ;Non-EIC voyages There is some ambiguity about the ''Windham''s whereabouts between her fifth and sixth voyages for the EIC. The summary vessel history in the National Archives suggests that ''Windham'' returned to Britain, arriving in The Downs on 8 August 1811, but this is inconsistent with newspaper account of her arrival in February.〔 There was a "''Windham'' transport" at the British invasion of Java in August–September 1811.〔 The East India Company provided the services of several of their ships, led by the ''Malabar'' under Commodore John Hayes. These were the ''Ariel'', ''Aurora'', ''Mornington'', ''Nautilus'', ''Psyche'', ''Thetis'', and ''Vestal''. This is in addition to the transport vessels. The "''Windham'' transport" carried the 3rd volunteer battalion to Cheribon. A ''Windham'' carried the 46th Regiment of Foot to New South Wales. She, ''General Hewett'', and ''Wanstead'' left England on 23 August 1813, initially under escort by HMS ''Akbar''.〔McPhee (2006), pp.16-7.〕 They arrived in Sydney on 11 February 1814. An American letter of marque captured a ''Windham'' off China later in 1814, but gave her up after taking part of her cargo.〔() ''Lloyd's List'', no. 4931 - accessed 4 August 2015]〕 On 16 August 1814, ''Windham'' ran on shore after leaving the dock at Bengal. She had not suffered material damage and was gotten off on the next tide. She then returned to dock.〔(''Lloyd's List'', no. 4946 - accessed 4 August 2015. )〕 ;Sixth voyage (1816-1817) Her captain for her sixth and last voyage for the EIC was Joseph Andrews. Because this voyage took place after the end of the Napoleonic Wars ''Windham'' did not have a letter of marque. She left the Downs on 21 April 1816 and reached Penang and then Malacca on 7 September. She reached Whampoa on 11 October. She left China, crossing the Second Bar on 10 January 1817, reached St Helena on 18 March, and the Downs on 23 May.〔 The EIC then sold her to Joseph Andrews. 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「Chilean ship Lautaro (1818)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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