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HMS ''Clyde'' was a Royal Navy frigate built at Chatham Dockyard of fir (pitch pine), and launched in 1796. In 1797, she was one of only two ships whose captains were able to maintain some control over their vessels during the Nore mutiny. In 1805, HMS ''Clyde'' was dismantled and rebuilt at Woolwich Dockyard; she was relaunched on 23 February 1806. She was ultimately sold in August 1814. ==First incarnation== Captain Charles Cunningham commissioned ''Clyde'' in April 1796. She was at the Nore at the time of the mutiny,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/11988.html )〕 but escaped to Sheerness on 29/30 May 1797.〔 ''Clyde'' and shared in the capture in November and December 1797 of the French brigs ''Minerva'' and ''Succès'' (or ''Success''). ''Success'' was a privateer from Bayonne that been out 15 days and had only captured one American vessel. In addition to the capture of the ''Success'' on 13 December, ''St Fiorenzo'' and ''Clyde'' captured the privateer ''Dorade'' eight days later. The actual captor of ''Dorade'' was ''Clyde''. ''Dorade'' was from Bordeaux and was pierced for 18 guns, though she only had 12. She had been out 50 days and had been cruising off the Azores and Madeira, but had captured nothing. She and her crew of 93 men were on their way home when ''Clyde'' captured her. Unfortunately, the commander of the prize crew hoisted too much sail with the result that ''Dorade'' overturned, drowning all 19 members of the prize crew. In March 1798 ''Clyde'' captured two merchant vessels. She captured the ship ''Vrouw Classina'' on the 22nd, and recaptured the ''Anne'' two days later. Then in May ''Clyde'' captured the ''Marie Perotte'' and in June recaptured the ''Sea Nymphe''. ''Clyde'', ''San Fiorenzo'', , , , and , shared in the capture of the chasse maree ''Marie Perotte'' and a sloop of unknown name, as well as the recapture of the ''Sea Nymphe'' and the ''Mary''. On 4 January 1799, ''Clyde'' recaptured the ship ''Hiram''.〔 Six days later, ''Clyde'' captured the letter of marque schooner ''Aire'', which was sailing from Brest to Santo Domingo. Then three days later, ''Clyde'' captured the French privateer brig ''Bon Ordre''. ''Bon Ordre'' was armed with 16 guns and carried a crew of 65 men. She had sailed on 20 December from Granville and had captured a brig from Newfoundland two weeks before she herself was captured. On 9 March 1799, ''St Fiorenzo'' and ''Clyde'' captured the French sloop ''St Joseph''. ''Clyde'' captured the American ship ''Nymph'' on 11 April. In August, ''Clyde'' was off the coast of France. On the 21st, she was six or seven leagues NW of the Cordovan Lighthouse near the mouth of the Gironde when she observed two sail. As ''Clyde'' approached, they separated, and she pursued the larger. ''Clyde'' brought her quarry to action, eventually forcing the French vessel to strike. The French vessel was the frigate ''Vestale'', a 32-gun frigate and a crew of 235 men under the command of M. P.M. Gaspard. She had sailed from Cadiz with dispatches for Saint Domingue and was on her return voyage. She carried a number of passengers who she had landed at Passages (Pasajes) two days earlier, and was now on her way to Rochefort. In the engagement, ''Clyde'' lost two men killed and three wounded; ''Vestale'' had ten men killed and 22 wounded, several of whom died later. ''Vestale''s consort, the 20-gun corvette ''Sagesse'' had too large a lead and escaped into the Garonne. On 11 and 28 May 1800, ''Clyde'' captured a chasse maree of unknown name, and another chasse maree, called ''Clarre Voyante''.〔 In between, on 12 May, ''Clyde'', and the hired armed cutter ''Suwarrow'' captured a French chasse maree, name unknown.〔 On 22 October 1800, ''Clyde'' arrived in Plymouth Sound with the "Dick Guineaman", of Liverpool, in tow. The ''Dick'' had suffered extensive damage in a fight against a French privateer before ''Clyde'' was able to recapture her.〔 When he arrived in the Sound, Cunningham reported the names of the vessels ''Clyde'' had captured or recaptured on her last cruise. *''Deux Ami'', a Spanish letter of marque, of four guns and 27 men, that had been sailing from Vera Cruz to St Andero, and which ''Clyde'' had burnt in the harbour of St. Vincent;〔 *''Beloz'' (or ''Belos''), a Spanish packet ship, of four guns and 30 men, that had been sailing from Havannah to Corunna when ''Clyde'' captured her;〔 *''Rose'', a French schooner sailing from Bourdeaux to Guadaloupe;〔 and *''Magicienne'', a French schooner, that had been sailing from Senegal to Bordeaux.〔 Cunningham also reported that the captor of the ''Dick'' had been the French privateer ''Grande Decidee'', and that ''Fisgard'', which had been in sight when ''Clyde'' recaptured the ''Dick'', had captured ''Grande Decidee'' two hours later. In June 1802 Captain John Larmour replaced Cunningham. ''Clyde'' then served in the North Sea.〔 She captured sundry fishing vessels between 8 and 10 June 1803. She shared the proceeds of the capture by agreement with Captain Vansittart of . On 21 September ''Clyde'' captured the French privateer schooner ''Caroline''. On 7 July 1803, ''Clyde'' was in company when the gun-brig captured the ''Napoleon'', Klock, master. ''Clyde'', , ''Fortunee'', and was among the vessels that shared in the proceeds of the capture on 27 August 1803 of the ''Henrick and Jan'', Vriede Frederick Ipsia, master. ''Clyde'' was hauled up on a slip at Woolwich on 10 February 1805. There the Navy had her broken dismantled and rebuilt.〔 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 Clyde (1796)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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