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Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Blonde'': *HMS Blonde (1760) was a 32-gun fifth rate. A British squadron under Captain John Elliot in HMS ''Aeolus'' met a French squadron under Captain François Thurot in the ''Maréchal de Belle-Isle'' on 24 February 1760. In the action, the British captured ''Maréchal de Belle-Isle'' (after Thurot was killed), , and ''Blonde''. The Royal Navy took the latter two into service; ''Blonde'' was wrecked in May 1782 off Nova Scotia.〔(Wrongly reported by Colledge and Warlow ) as wrecked off Nantucket; mistake repeated by Hepper (1994), p.68.〕 * was a 32-gun fifth rate believed to have been launched in 1783. Little is known of her, and she may have been cancelled or renamed. * was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1787 and used as a troop ship from 1798, before being sold in 1805. Because ''Blonde'' served in the navy's Egyptian campaign between 8 March 1801 and 2 September, her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal that the Admiralty issued in 1847 to all surviving claimants. * was a French corvette of 28 guns and 210 men, under the command of Citizen Gueria. and captured her on 27 November 1793. The Royal Navy took her into service under existing name and as a 28-gun sixth rate. She was sold in 1794.〔Demerliac (1996), p.73, #465.〕 *HMS ''Blonde'' was previously , a 38-gun fifth rate captured from the French in 1782. She was renamed HMS ''Blonde'' in 1805 and was broken up in 1811. *HMS ''Blonde'' was to have been a 36-gun fifth rate, but she was renamed in 1812 before being launched in 1813. * was a 46-gun fifth rate launched in 1819. She was used for harbour service from 1850 and was renamed HMS ''Calypso'' in 1870, before being sold in 1895. She is mainly known for her 1824 trip to Hawaii, returning the bodies of King Kamehameha II and Queen Kamāmalu, who both had died during a trip to London. *HMS ''Blonde'' was to have been an ''Ister''-class wooden screw frigate. She was laid down in 1860 but was cancelled in 1863. *HMS ''Blonde'' was to have been an armoured frigate, but she was renamed in 1873 before being launched later that year. * was a ''Barracouta''-class third-class protected cruiser launched in 1889 and sold in 1905. * was a ''Blonde''-class scout cruiser launched in 1910 and sold in 1920. ==Citations== 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 Blonde」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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