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} |} HMS ''Ariel'' was a 20-gun ''Sphinx''-class sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy. The French captured her in 1779, and she served during the American Revolutionary War for them and the Americans as well as the British. She was scuttled in 1793. ==British career== She was ordered from John Perry & Co.'s Blackwall Yard on 3 July 1776, was laid down that month and was launched on 7 July 1777. She was commissioned under Captain John Jackson, and cruised in the North Sea in August 1777. After a brief spell off the Norwegian and Danish coasts, she sailed for North America on 7 November. In 1778 she captured several American vessels. While ''Ariel'' was under the command of John Becher on 31 March, she shared in the capture of the frigate USS ''Virginia''. (The Royal Navy took ''Virginia'' into service as HMS ''Virginia''.) On 4 June ''Ariel'' captured the sloop ''Fanny''. Then on 27 August 1778 she captured the 16-gun "Congress" brig USS ''Resistance''. ''Resistance'' had sailed from Boston armed for war and in quest of the French fleet. ''Ariel'' burnt her.〔 ''Ariel'' also shared in the prize money for a number of vessels captured between 2 January and 14 September. These were the sloops ''Betsy'' and ''Polly'', brigs ''MCleary'', ''Reprizal'', ''Argyle''. and ''Postillion'', the schooner ''Chelsea'', and the snow ''David''. ''Ariel'' then passed under the command of Captain Charles Phipps. Phipps and ''Ariel'' captured the American privateer ''New Broom'' on 22 October 1778, as well as the schooners ''Lark'' and ''Three Friends''. ''New Broom'' was armed with 16 guns and had sailed from New London when ''Ariel'' and stopped her off Nantucket shoals.〔 The next year, in February, Captain Thomas Mackenzie replaced Phipps. 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 Ariel (1777)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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