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HMS ''Belliqueux'' (Eng. ''warlike'') was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 5 June 1780 at Blackwall Yard, London.〔 She was named after the French ship captured in 1758. In 1781 ''Belliqueux'' took part at the Battle of Fort Royal, and in 1782 she was at the Battle of the Saintes. At the Action of 4 August 1800, ''Belliqueux'' captured the French frigate ''Concorde''. On 11 February 1806 she was escorting a convoy that was three days out of the Cape on their way to Madras. The convoy included the East Indiamen ''Northampton'', ''William Pitt'', ''Streatham'', ''Europe'', ''Jane Duchess of Gordon'', ''Sir William Pulteney'', ''Union'', ''Comet'', ''Glory'', and ''Sarah Christiana''.〔''Lloyd's List'', no. 4059,() - accessed 5 December 2014.〕 Philip Dundas, Lieutenant-Governor of Penang died on-board on 8 April 1807, while the ''Belliqueux'' was in the Bay of Bengal. ''Belliqueux'' was employed as a prison ship from 1814, and was broken up in 1816.〔 ==Notes== 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 Belliqueux (1780)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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