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} |} HMS ''Childers'' was a brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, initially armed with 10 carriage guns which were later increased to 14 guns. The first brig-sloop to be built for the Navy, she was ordered from a commercial builder during the early years of the American War of Independence, and went on to support operations in the English Channel and the Caribbean. Laid up for a time after the end of the American War of Independence, she returned to service shortly before the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars. She had an active career in both the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, capturing numerous French privateers and during the Gunboat War participated in a noteworthy single-ship action. The navy withdrew her from service at the beginning of 1811, at which time she was broken up. ==Construction and commissioning== James Mentone, a notable builder of fast vessels at Limehouse, built ''Childers'', one of only two vessels he built for the navy. Although the design was nominally attributed to the Surveyor of the Navy, Sir John Williams, it was approved beforehand on 16 July 1778 as "adopted from a current merchant ship design" and was probably prepared by Mentone before Williams adapted it to meet Admiralty needs. The lines and hull form were those normally found in cutters rather than in the conventional ship-rigged sloops with three masts then prevalent in British naval service. She was initially described as simply a "brig", but was re-registered and established as a sloop on 6 August 1779.〔 Launched in September 1778, she was commissioned in October under Commander William Peacock.〔 After the Admiral Rodney's victory at the battle of Cape St. Vincent, ''Childers'', under the command of Captain M'Bride, brought back the dispatches to Britain. However, although she left ten days before , which was carrying the duplicates, ''Hyaena'' arrived two days earlier.〔''Naval Chronicle'', Vol. 6, p.456.〕 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 Childers (1778)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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