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''Cruelle'' was a schooner-cannoniere (gun-schooner), launched in 1793. The British captured her in June 1800 and commissioned her as HMS ''Cruelle''. She spent a little over a year in the Mediterranean, serving at Malta and Alexandria before the (Navy )] sold her in 1801. ==French service and capture== ''Cruelle'' was one of seven ''Vesuve''-class ''brick-canonniers'', though she herself was described as being schooner-rigged.〔 However, her captors described her as a brig. In late 1794 she sailed from Brest to Guadeloupe to alert the French there that a naval squadron under the command of ''Capitaine de Vaisseau'' Duchesne was on its way with supplies and reinforcements.〔de Peyreleau (1825), Vol. 3, p.42.〕 At some point thereafter, ''Cruelle'' was converted to a bomb vessel. On 1 June 1800 about 12 leagues southward of Les Hières captured ''Cruelle'' when ''Cruelle'' was only eight hours out of Toulon. Captain R. Dudley Oliver of ''Mermaid'' described ''Cruelle'' as a brig of six guns, four of which she had thrown overboard during the chase. She had a crew of 43 men under the command of ''Ensigne de vaisseau'' Francis Xavier Jeard. She was a bomb vessel but had left her mortar at Toulon as she was carrying supplies for Malta. The British took ''Cruelle'' into service under her existing name. All subsequent British accounts refer to ''Cruelle'' as a cutter of ten guns. 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 Cruelle (1800)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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