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} |} HMS ''Alert'' was launched in 1793 for the Royal Navy. In May 1794 the French Navy captured her and took her into service as ''Alerte''. A few months later the Royal Navy destroyed her. ==Career== Commander Charles Smyth commissioned her in October 1793. He then sailed for Nova Scotia in May 1794. ''Alerte'' was off the coast of Ireland when she had the misfortune to encounter the 40-gun French frigate ''Unité''.〔Hepper (1994), p.76.〕 At daybreak on 14 May ''Alert'' was at when she sighted three vessels. These edged towards ''Alert'', as she edged away, and the strangers did not respond to ''Alert''s signals. At about 10:45 another three vessels appeared. The strange vessels signaled to each other, and most sailed away, but one remained in chase. Then at noon some vessels appeared off ''Alert''s bow and Smyth decided to engage his pursuer to try to cripple her and so escape. ''Alert'' and the frigate closed at about 1:45pm and an action commenced after Smyth declined an invitation to strike. By 3:30 ''Alert'' had lost three men killed and nine wounded, her rigging and sails were shredded, and she had taken shots between wind and water. At this point Smyth struck.〔Hepper (1994), p. 76.〕 The French took her into service as ''Alerte''. Some four months later, on 23 August, , Captain John Borlase Warren, and , Captain Sir Edward Pellew, chased two French corvettes, ''Alerte'' and ''Espion'' into Audierne Bay. The two corvettes anchored off the Gamelle Rocks, but when they saw that the British intended to capture them, their captains got under weigh and ran their vessels aground below the guns of three shore batteries. The corvettes continued to exchange fire with the two British frigates until early evening, when the corvettes' masts fell. At that point many of the French crewmen abandoned their vessels and went ashore. Warren sent in the boats from both ''Flora'' and ''Arethusa'', all under Pellew's command, with orders to set fire or otherwise destroy the two corvettes. Pellew went in and took possession of both, but determined that he could not extract the wounded. Pellew therefore left the vessels, which he determined were bilged and scuttled, with rocks having pierced their bottoms, and left with 52 prisoners. Pellew estimated that ''Alerte'' had suffered 20 to 30 men killed and wounded, and that ''Espion'' had lost more. French records indicate that ''Alerte'', which had been under the command of ''lieutenant de vaisseau'' Passart, had been scuttled and was lost. However, the French Navy was able to refloat ''Espion'', which had been under the command of ''lieutenant de vaisseau'' Magendie.〔''Fonds Marine'', p 74 & p.84.〕〔Roche, vol.1, p. 183〕〔Quintin, p. 251〕〔Quintin (p. 251) gives the name ''Espoir'' instead of ''Espion'', apparently in error. A ''Hasard''-class brig ''Espoir'' was in commission at the time, but she was not captured on 2-3 March 1795.〕 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 Alert (1793)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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