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} |} ''Iris'' was a 20-gun corvette of the French Navy. The Royal Navy captured her in 1809 and took her into service as HMS ''Rainbow''. She was sold in 1815. ==French service and capture== ''Iris'' was built to plan by Louis Bretocq, a plan that Jacques-Noël Sané altered. However, Bretocq probably acted as cosntructeur. Construction did not begin until some two years after the order, and ''Iris'' was then on the stocks for some three years. The French Navy commissioned ''Iris'' on 31 December 1808, under ''capitaine de fregate'' Charles Méquet (or Joseph-Jean Macquet, or Miquet). She left Dunkirk 29 January 1809 with 640 casks of flour for Martinique.〔 En route, on 2 February at 11am she encountered HMS ''Aimable'', under Captain Lord George Stuart, while off the Texel on the Wellbank. A 28-hour chase ensued, followed by a short running fight 38 leagues off Aberdeen. In the action ''Iris'' lost two men killed and eight wounded, and ''Aimable'' lost one man killed and one wounded. ''Iris'' then struck.〔''Naval Chronicle'', Vol. 21, pp.171-2.〕 ''Iris'' was brought into Yarmouth roads in early February. ''Lloyd's List'' reported that she had been captured on 4 February, and that at the time of the encounter she had been in company with a brig.〔''Lloyd's List'', no.4326,() - accessed 16 March 2015.〕 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 corvette Iris (1806)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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