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} |} HMS ''Brazen'' was the French privateer ''Invincible General Bonaparte'' (or ''Invincible Bonaparte'' or ''Invincible Buonaparte''), which the British captured in 1798. She is best known for her wrecking in January 1800 in which all but one of her crew drowned. ==Capture== ''Invincible General Bonaparte'' was a French privateer of 20 guns and 170 men that the frigate ''Boadicea'' captured on 9 December 1798.〔 She was sixteen days out of Bordeaux and reportedly had not made any captures.〔 However, a privateer by the same name had taken and burned the ''Friendship'', Smith, master, which had been sailing from St Ube's to Falmouth.〔''Lloyd's List'',() - accessed 19 December 2013.〕 ''Boadicea'' sent the ''Invincible Buonaparte'', of "18 guns and 175 men" into Portsmouth.〔''Lloyd's List'',() - accessed 19 December 2013.〕 The prize arrived at Spithead on 18 December and in time the Admiralty decided to purchase her. The Admiralty renamed her ''Brazen'' and established her as an 18-gun sloop of war.〔 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 Brazen (1798)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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