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HMS ''Pompee'' was a 74-gun ship of the line of the Royal Navy. Built as ''Pompée'', a ship of the French Navy, she was handed over to the British during the Siege of Toulon (September-December 1793) a few months after being completed, and spent the entirety of her active career with the British. ==Service== During the Siege of Toulon, Captain Poulain, her commanding officer, joined the British. ''Pompee'' fled Toulon when the city fell to the French Republicans and sailed to Britain under the temporary command of Lieutenant John Davie. She arrived at Portsmouth on 3 May 1794, and was registered on the navy list under an Admiralty order dated 29 October 1794. She commissioned as HMS ''Pompee'' under her first commander, Captain Charles Edmund Nugent, in May 1795 and entered service with the Channel Fleet after a period of refitting. From August 1795 she was under Captain James Vashon, and she was later one of the ships involved in the Spithead mutiny in 1797.〔 , ''Pompee'', , , and shared in the proceeds of the capture on 10 September of the ''Tordenshiold''. Under Captain Charles Stirling, she fought at the Battle of Algeciras Bay in 1801. In 1807 the ship, under the command of Captain Richard Dacres served in the Mediterranean squadron under Rear-Admiral Sir Sydney Smith,〔pp.15-20, Howard〕 as part of the Vice-Admiral Duckworth's Dardanelles Operation and later the Alexandria expedition of 1807. In late 1808 the ''Pompee'' was in the Caribbean, and took part in the capture of Martinique in January 1809 She later captured the brig ''Pylade'' on 20 October 1808, and on 17 April 1809. In April 1809, a strong French squadron arrived at the Îles des Saintes, south of Guadeloupe. There they were blockaded until 14 April, when a British force under Major-General Frederick Maitland and Captain Philip Beaver in , invaded and captured the islands. ''Pompee'' was among the naval vessels that shared in the proceeds of the capture of the islands. 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「HMS Pompee (1793)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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