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} |} The French brig ''Voltigeur'' was a ''Palinure''-class brig launched in 1804. The British captured her in 1806 and renamed her HMS ''Pelican''. She was sold in 1812. ==Capture== In late 1805, the sister-ships ''Phaeton'' and ''Voltigeur'', both armed with 16 guns and having crews of 120 men and 115 men, were under the command of ''Lieutenants de vaisseau'' Louis-Henri Saulces de Freycinet and Jacques Saint-Cricq. They cruised the coasts of Schleswig-Holstein before they set sail for Santo Domingo. On 24 March, a little south-east of Puerto Rico, they encountered and exchanged fire for about four hours before nightfall ended the encounter.〔 During that engagement the French vessels had suffered damage and possibly casualties. They then sailed towards Curacoa. ) Two days later, on 27 March 1806, , under the command of Captain Charles B.H. Ross, was sailing from Santo Domingo to Curacoa when she encountered two French navy brigs. At 1pm, ''Pique'' began firing at long range, and by 2pm had caught up with them. After an intensive cannonade that lasted some 20 minutes, ''Pique'' was able to send a boarding party aboard one of the two French vessels. A terrible struggle ensued before the French vessel struck. The French crew had concealed themselves under sails and in the wreckage, emerging once the boarding party arrived and subjecting it to a devastating fusillade that killed or wounded most of the boarding party. Ross then sent over more men, before returning to the chase of the second brig.〔James (1837), Vol. 4, pp. 226-7.〕 After the exchange of several more broadsides, the second French vessel struck.〔 The two French brigs were ''Phaeton'' and ''Voltigeur''. ''Pique'' had one man wounded during the chase, and nine men killed and 13 wounded during the boarding of ''Phaeton''. Ross estimated that the French vessels had lost half their crews dead and wounded. Later reports suggested that although French casualties on ''Phaeton'' had been heavy, those on ''Voltigeur'' were slight. The British took ''Phaeton'' into service as ''Mignonne'', and ''Voltigeur'' as ''Pelican''.〔Winfield (2008), p.317.〕 In 1847 the Admiralty awarded the Naval General Service Medal with clasp “Pique 26 March 1806" to all surviving claimants from the action. 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 Voltigeur (1804)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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