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} |} The Dutch sloop ''Sireene'' (or ''Sirène'') was launched in 1786. The British captured her in 1796 at the capitulation of Saldanha Bay. She then served in the Royal Navy, first briefly as the sixth rate HMS ''Daphne'', and then from 1798 as the prison ship HMS ''Laurel''. The Admiralty sold her in 1821. ==Dutch service and capture== ''Sireene'' was a ship sloop with a quarter deck, built at Haarlingen in 1786 for the Dutch admiralty under the 7th Charter.〔 At Saldanha Bay a squadron of the navy of the Batavian Republic, under the command of Rear-Admiral Engelbertus Lucas (1747-21 June 1797), surrendered without a fight to a Royal Navy squadron under the command of Vice-Admiral George Elphinstone at Saldanha Bay on 17 August 1796. ''Sireene'' was one of the vessels that the British captured. At the time of her capture, ''Sireene'' was armed with 18 guns, and had a crew of 130 men. She was under the command of Lieutenant Christiaan de Cerf.〔Government of the Cape Coplony (21899), Vol. 5, P.10.〕 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「Dutch sloop Sireene (1786)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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