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HMS ''Belette'' (or ''Bellette'') was an 18-gun ''Cruizer''-class brig-sloop, built by King at Dover and launched on 21 March 1806.〔Winfield (2008), p.292.〕 During the Napoleonic Wars she served with some success in the Baltic and the Caribbean. ''Belette'' was lost in the Kattegat in 1812 when she hit a rock off Læsø. ==Baltic== ''Belette'' was commissioned in April 1806 under Commander Richard Piercy for the North Sea.〔 Commander John Phillimore took command in September and sailed ''Belette'' in the English Channel and the Downs, taking part in Commodore Edward Owen's attack on Boulogne.〔〔 ''Belette'' was occupied in early 1807 with conveying supplies to the besieged town of Kolberg. In June 1807 ''Belette'' was off Suffolk when she tried to land a M. Bedezee, a Prussian envoy carrying some important despatches. The boat overturned a few hundred meters off shore and Bedezee drowned, as did a midshipman and three crewmen. A master's mate and a crewman were saved, but the despatches were lost.〔Burke, Edmund (1807) ''The Annual register of world events: a review of the year''. (London: Longmans), Volume 49, p.447.〕 Next, she was attached to Admiral James Gambier's fleet which returned to the Baltic to attack Copenhagen again in 1807.〔 Phillimore distinguished himself during the battle, particularly in an engagement at the end of August, when ''Belette'' became becalmed off the Danish coast. Sixteen Danish gunboats attacked ''Belette'', which sank three of them before boats from other British ships arrived and towed her clear.〔〔 Gambier rewarded Phillimore for his courage by giving him the honour of carrying Gambier's despatches to the Admiralty. As a result, Phillimore received a promotion to post-captain on 13 October; however he remained with ''Belette''.〔〔 The expedition to Copenhagen resulted in prize money for ''Bellette'' both for warships and merchant vessels. ''Belette'' was one of seven British warships sharing in the proceeds of the capture on 28 August of the Danish merchant vessel ''Sally''. Then ''Belette'' is listed among the vessels sharing in the prize money for the ships and provisions that the British captured at Copenhagen. ''Bellette'' also shared with and a number of other warships in the captures of several merchant vessels: the ''Aurora'' (30 August), ''Paulina'' (30 August), ''Ceres'' (31 August), ''Odiford'' (4 September), and ''Benedicta'' (12 September). On 19 November ''Belette'', with the gun-vessels ''Tigress'' and ''Safeguard'' in company, recaptured the ship ''Lively''. ''Belette'' brought the British ambassador, Lord Hutchinson back to Britain in February 1808.〔 While sailing to Gothenburg he encountered a Danish Navy two-decker, but was able to escape by sailing into shallower waters.〔 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 Belette (1806)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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