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} |} HMS ''Basilisk'' was a built by Randall in Rotherhithe and launched in 1801. She served briefly at the end of the French Revolutionary Wars, with most of her service occurring during the Napoleonic Wars protecting convoys from privateers, conducting close-inshore surveillance and taking enemy coastal shipping. She was sold for breaking in 1815. ==French Revolutionary Wars== In 1801 ''Basilisk'' was commissioned under Lieutenant Samuel Gooch (or Gooche), in the Channel.〔Winfield (2008), p.335.〕 She served under Captain Cunningham in the frigate , who was senior officer between Le Havre and the Île de Batz. On 16 August ''Basilisk'' and were at anchor, on station, between Barfleur and Marcou when they sighted two brigs and 17 gunvessels coming round Cape Barfleur. Gooch signaled to Captain Ross Donnelly of , who was closer and who proceeded in pursuit. The enemy ran into a bay west of the cape. There they anchored close to the beach where a battery and some field guns could fire in support of them. ''Basilisk'' and ''Bloodhound'' followed them and anchored in two fathoms. The two British vessels were within 18-pounder range and started firing. ''Maidstone'', however, could not approach within range of her 12-pounder guns and so signaled ''Basilisk'' and ''Bloodhound'' to withdraw. Later, when the tide came in, the enemy rowed round the lighthouse and disappeared, while the wind and tide conditions prevented the three British vessels from following. When the British could find the enemy neither in Isigny nor within La Hogue, Cunningham surmised that they might have returned to Cherbourg and sailed there, where he found a number of French vessels and a convoy.〔''Naval Chronicle'', Vol. 6, p.161.〕 On 4 September ''Basilisk'' was in company with when they captured the ''Jonge Jan Schoon''. 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 Basilisk (1801)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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