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} |} HMS ''Cerberus'' was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She served in the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars in the Channel, the Mediterranean, the Adriatic, and even briefly in the Baltic against the Russians. She participated in one boat action that won for her crew a clasp to the Naval General Service Medal (NGSM). She also captured many privateers and merchant vessels. Her biggest battle was the Battle of Lissa, which won for her crew another clasp to the NGSM. She was sold in 1814. ==French Revolutionary Wars== ''Cerberus'' was launched in September 1794 by Henry Adams, of Bucklers Hard. Her first commander was Captain J. Drew, who took command of her in January 1795 for the Irish station.〔Winfield (2008), pp.145-6.〕 On 29 March 1795 she was sailing with ''Santa Margarita'' when the two engaged and captured the 18-gun ''Jean Bart'' in the English Channel. The Royal Navy subsequently took the ''Jean Bart'' into service as . Among the ships that shared in the prize money for the recapture of the ship ''Caldicot Castle'' and ''Jean Bart'' on 28 and 30 March were , , , , , ''Valiant'', , ''Cerberus'' and ''Santa Margarita''. In July 1796, Cerberus and ''Seahorse'' took the privateer cutter ''Calvados'' (or ''Salvados''). ''Calvados'' carried six guns and ten swivels, and had a crew of 38 men. She was ten days out of Brest, France, but had not made any captures. Joined by ''Diana'', ''Cerberus'' and ''Seahorse'' captured the 14-gun privateer ''Indemnité'' on 28 August. ''Indemnité'', of Boulogne, was pierced for 14 guns but carried ten. She had a crew of 68 men. On 14 September 1796, ''Cerberus'', and captured the Brazilian ship ''Santa Cruz''. Also in September, ''Cerberus'' captured the French privateer cutter ''Didon''. ''Didon'' was armed with four brass 4-pounder guns, swivels and small arms. She had a crew of 30 men and was nine days out of Greville, having taken nothing. ''Cerberus'', in company with and ''Diana'', chased the privateer brig ''Franklin'' into the hands of Sir John Borlase Warren's squadron on 1 November. ''Franklin'' carried twelve 9-pounder guns and a crew of 80 men.〔 On 4 November ''Cerberus'' recaptured the ship ''Friendship'', from Cape of Good Hope.〔 On 5 November, ''Cerberus'' took the privateer cutter ''Hirondelle'' (ex-''Sans Culotte''). ''Hirondelle'' was armed with ten 6-pounder guns of which she had thrown six overboard during the chase, and had a crew of 63 men. The next day ''Cerberus'' recaptured the ''Jackson Junior'', from Jamaica.〔 ''Hirondelle'', ''Franklin'' (or ''Franklyn'') and three privateers that ''Santa Margarita'' and had captured had formed a small squadron that had left Brest to scour the English Channel.〔 On 11 May 1797, ''Cerberus'' was on her way back to Cork from convoying vessels towards Newfoundland and the West Indies when she captured the French privateer ''Dungerquoise''. ''Dunkerquoise'' had been armed with eighteen 9-pounder guns but had thrown most overboard while ''Cerberus'' chased her. ''Dunquerquoise'' also had a crew of 100 men. ''Cerberus'' was in company with ''Diana'', when ''Diana'' took the cutter ''Neptune'' on 12 September after a nine-hour chase. ''Neptune'' was armed with 12 guns and had a crew of 55 men. She was three days out of Lorient and had taken no prizes. Five days later, ''Cerberus'' and ''Diana'' recaptured the ''Albion''. Then on 27 September, ''Cerberus'' brought into Cork the Spanish privateer schooner ''San Noberta''. ''San Norberta'' was armed with four carriage guns plus some swivels, and had a crew of 42 men. ''Cerberus'' also recaptured the Danish ship ''Graff Bernstorff'', which was carrying a cargo of iron and grain from St. Michael's to Lisbon. ''Cerberus'' shared in the prize money with ''Diana'' and . ''Cerberus'' was on the Irish station when on 12 and 14 November 1797 she captured two French privateers, the and the . Both vessels were pierced for 20 guns, were copper-bottomed, quite new, and fast sailers. ''Epervier'' was armed with sixteen 4-pounder guns and had a crew of 145 men. ''Renard'' carried eighteen 6-pounders and had a crew of 189 men. ''Lloyd's List'' reported ''Cerberus''s capture of two privateers, one of 30 guns and one of 18, and the arrival of both at Cork.〔''Lloyd's List'', no.2971,() - accessed 31 January 2014.〕 The Royal Navy took both into service, though it never actually commissioned ''Epervier'', which was listed as ''Epervoir''.〔Winfield (2008), p.266.〕 ''Renard'' retained her name unchanged.〔 Between these two captures, ''Cerberus'' recaptured the ''Adelphi'', prize to ''Epervier''.〔 ''Adelphi'', Patterson, master, had been sailing from Quebec to London when ''Epervier'' captured her; she too went into Cork.〔 During this time, ''Cerberus'' also chased the privateer ''Buonaparte'' but failed to capture the French ship after ''Cerberus''s studding sails and top gallant mast were carried away. ''Buonaparte'' was armed with 32 guns and had a crew of 250 men. Apparently, in order to escape ''Cerberus'', ''Buonaparte'' threw many of her guns and stores overboard, necessitating her return to Bordeaux.〔 On 11 January 1798 Captain Drew, his nephew Lieutenant James Drew, Captain John Pulling and some ten men in ''Cerberus''s pinnace drowned in a boat accident in Plymouth.〔〔''Naval Chronicle'', Vol. 11, p.168.〕〔''Naval Chronicle'', Vol. 12, p.432.〕 Captain James Macnamara (or M'Namara) replaced Drew. On 24 October, ''Cerberus'' and ''Diana'' captured the ''Duntzfelt''. About seven weeks later, on 10 December ''Cerberus'' recaptured the ''General Woolf'' (or ''General Wolff''). In July 1799 ''Cerberus'' recaptured the ''Philanthropist''. On 28 September, ''Cerberus'' captured the French letter of marque ''Echange''. The ''Echange'' was pierced for 14 guns but carried only 10. She and her crew of 40 men were six days out of Bordeaux and she was sailing to San Domingo with a cargo of bale goods and wine. On 8 October ''Cerberus'' captured the French schooner ''Esperance''. Next day, ''Cerberus'' was among the many British ships that shared in the proceeds of the capture of the ''Nostra Senora de la Solidad''. Seven days later, and ''Cerberus'' captured the ''Purissima Conceptione''. On 20 October, ''Cerberus'' encountered a Spanish convoy some eight or nine leagues off Cape Ortegal. The convoy comprised some 80 vessels escorted by four frigates and two brig-corvettes. At one time or another ''Cerberus'' engaged all the frigates, including firing from both broadsides at the same time. Outnumbered, ''Cerberus'' eventually withdrew, but not before she had captured and set fire to a brig from the convoy. Despite the often close action, ''Cerberus'' suffered only four men wounded.〔James (1837), Vol. 2, pp.359-60.〕 In July 1800, ''Cerberus'' recaptured the ''Active''.〔 On 13 September 1801, ''Cerberus'' sailed for Cowes to take troop from there to Jersey. She then was to proceed to Ireland.〔''Naval Chronicle'', Vol. 4, p.251.〕 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 Cerberus (1794)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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