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The French brig ''Pandour'' was a brig of the French Navy launched in 1804 that the Royal Navy captured in 1806. In 1807 she became a whaler in the South Seas Fisheries, but was lost in 1810. ==French career and capture== ''Capitaine de frégate'' Chaumont-Quitry was appointed on 15 July to command ''Pandour'' while she was still under construction at Nantes.〔''Revue maritime'', Vol. 122, p.73.〕 ''Capitaine de frégate'' Hulot-Gury was appointed on 19 December to replace him. However, shortly after her commissioning, ''Pandour'' sailed from Mindin to Lorient. On 23 December ''Pandour'' had to leave Mindin roads to escape a wind breaking her cables and driving her ashore. The only people on board at the time were her captain, another officer, and 19 of her crew; the rest were on shore gathering supplies as her fitting out was not yet complete. ''Pandour'' sailed to Lorient where the rest of her crew joined her after having come from Paimbœuf by road with some of the supplies that they had gathered. Hulot-Gury took command on 2 January 1805.〔''Revue maritime'', Vol. 122, p.387-8.〕 On 30 January though, ''Pandour'' was stripped of most of her crew to provide fill out the crew of ''Palinure''. To replace her losses, the government sent some soldiers and police to Nantes where there were 80 recruits incarcerated in prisons, officially designated caserns. The guards were to escort the recruits to Lorient and prevent any from deserting. Then on 31 January orders came that both ''Palinure'' and ''Pandour'' were to be prepared to carry duplicate dispatches to Martinique. To fill out the crews men were drafted from other naval vessels and sixteen 6-pounder guns were placed on each of the two brigs. The next day they both set sail.〔''Revue maritime'', Vol. 122, p.390-1.〕 Hulot-Gury remained ''Pandour''s captain until 12 June. Then between 9 July and 14 August ''lieutenant de vaisseau auxiliaire'' Bourdé-Villeaubert was in command. ''Pandour'' was stationed at Lorient, but in the first half of 1805 sailed to Guadeloupe, returning first to Santander, and then Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, via Bayonne.〔''Fonds Marine'', pp.341-2.〕 French records indicate that between 20 October 1805 and 24 May 1806, ''Pandour'' was under the command of ''capitaine de frégate'' Michel Philippe Malingre, and that she transported a prisoner from Guadeloupe to Ténériffe. On her outward voyage she captured a British merchant vessel that she took into Guadelope.〔Napoleon ''et al''. (2009), p.420.〕 British records report that on 1 May , Captain Philip Broke, chased ''Pandour'', bound for France from Senegal, 160 miles into Rear Admiral Charles Stirling's squadron where she was brought to; ''Druid'' had to share the prize money with Stirling's entire squadron and so earned relatively little for the long chase. ''Pandour'' was under the command of M. Malingre and had a crew of 114 men. She had been armed with eighteen 6-pounder guns, but her crew had thrown two of the guns overboard during the chase. Stirling instructed Broke to bring her into Plymouth, where they arrived on 9 May. 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「French brig Pandour (1804)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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