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HMS ''Anson'' was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Plymouth on 4 September 1781〔 by Georgina, Duchess of Devonshire. ==History== (詳細はLes Saintes on 9 April 1782 under the flag of Admiral Sir George Rodney against Admiral de Grasse. She was in the rear division, which was undeer the command of Rear-Admiral Francis Samuel Drake. In this engagement, Captain William Blair was one of the two Royal Navy post captains killed. In all ''Anson'' lost three men killed (including Blair), and 13 men wounded. In 1794, ''Anson'' was razéed to a large frigate of 44-guns by removing her prior forecastle and quarterdeck and altering the former upper deck (now weather or spar-deck) to give her a new forecastle and quarterdeck. , ''Anson'', , , and shared in the proceeds of the capture on 10 September of the ''Tordenshiold''. At the Action of 16 July 1797, ''Anson'' and drove the French corvette ''Calliope'' on shore, where ''Sylph'' proceeded to fire on her. When checked a week later, ''Calliope'' was wrecked; her crew were camped on shore trying to salvage what stores they could. ''Pomone'' confirmed that the flute ''Freedom'' and a brig that had also been driven ashore too were wrecked. On 29 December 1797 ''Anson'' recaptured , which the French had captured three years earlier in December 1794 and taken into service under her existing name. ''Daphné'' was under the command of ''lieutenant de vaisseau'' Latreyte and transiting between Lorient and Bordeaux on her way to Guadeloupe when ''Anson'' captured her at the mouth of the Gironde.〔Fonds, p.194.〕 ''Anson'' fired several shots before ''Daphne'' struck. She was armed with 30 guns and had 276 men aboard, including 30 passengers. Two of the passengers were Civil Commissioners Jaiquelin and La Carze, who succeeded in throwing their dispatches for Guadeloupe overboard.''Daphne'' had five men killed and several wounded. On 7 September 1798, after a 24-hour long chase, ''Anson'' and captured the ''Flore''.〔James (1837) Vol. 2, p.239.〕 Captain Stopford, of ''Phaeton'', in his letter described ''Flore'' as a frigate of 36 guns and 255 men. She was eight days out of Boulogne on a cruise. She had also served the Royal Navy in the American Revolutionary War. On 18 October 1798 under the command of Captain Philip Charles Durham, in company with ''Kangaroo'', ''Anson'' captured the French frigate ''Loire'', this after having earlier lost her mizzen mast, main lower and topsail yards during the pursuit of a French squadron off Ireland. She sailed from Plymouth on 26 January 1799, and on 2 February, in company with ''Ethalion'', captured the French privateer cutter ''Boulonaise'', 14, from Dunkirk which had been harassing shipping in the North Sea. On 9 September 1799 Captain Durham hosted a fête for King George III. During the course of the evening, the king was found on the low deck surrounded by the ship’s company talking to an old sailor. On 10 April 1800, when north-west of the Canary Islands, ''Anson'' detained the ''Catherine & Anna'' bound for Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire, from Batavia with a cargo of coffee. In 1801 Captain W. E. Cacraft assumed command and the ship was placed on the Channel station, cruising from Portsmouth. In 1802 she was in the Mediterranean, and in November she sailed from Malta for Egypt. She went in for repairs in 1805 at Portsmouth. On the morning of 23 August 1806 Captain Charles Lydiard along with ''Arethusa'' made a successful attack near Moro Castle in Cuba. On 15 September 1806, she encountered the French ''Foudroyant'', 84, under jury rig some 15 miles off Havana. Assuming that she had been damaged in action Captain Charles Lydiard attacked but then after half an hour found that the French ship had only suffered from bad weather and retained all her firepower. He was forced to haul off after two men had been killed and 13 wounded, his sails and rigging had been badly damaged and the ships were drifting fast in shore. On 1 January 1807 ''Anson'', , , , and captured Curaçao. The Dutch resisted and on ''Anson'' seven men were wounded; in all, the British lost three killed and 14 wounded. On the ships alone, the Dutch lost six men killed, including Commandant Cornelius J. Evertz, who commanded the Dutch naval force in Curaçao and seven wounded, of whom one died later. With the colony, the British captured the frigate ''Kenau Hasselar'', the sloop ''Suriname (a former Royal Naval sloop), and two naval schooners. In 1847 the Admiralty authorised the issue of the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Curacoa 1 Jany. 1807" to any surviving claimants from the action; 65 medals were issued. 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 Anson (1781)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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