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Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Alligator'', after the marine reptile, the alligator. A fourth ship was planned but later cancelled: * was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1780. In April 1782 she was at Accra, in company with when they destroyed a French storeship and captured several forts. On her way back to Britain on 26 June she encountered a French frigate off the Scilly Isles and a chase ensued and eventually a two-hour action in which she had three men killed and her captain and eleven others wounded. Eventually she struck to the ''Fée''.〔Hepper (1994), p.68.〕 Between 1782-83 she was known as ''Alligator No.2''. In October 1783 she became the packet ship ''Courrier de New-York'', operating out of Lorient, and took up the Lorient-New York route in December. She was transferred to the Régie de Paquebots in May 1787 and used on the Le Havre-New York and Le Havre-Antilles routes. As a packet ship she had a crew of 47 men and was armed with sixteen 6-pounder guns.〔Demerliac (1996), p.75, #476.〕 She was put up for sale in December 1788 and in January 1789 she was sold at Havre to Sr. Ruellen.〔Demerliac (1996), p.219, #2214.〕 In 1794 she was renamed ''Alligator''. * was a 28-gun Sixth Rate launched in 1787 and sold in 1814. * was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1821, on harbour service from 1846 and sold in 1865. *HMS ''Alligator'' was to have been a wooden screw corvette. She was laid down in 1860, but cancelled in 1863. ==Citations== 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 Alligator」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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