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} |} HMS ''Curlew'' (1812) was a Royal Navy ''Cruizer'' class brig-sloop built by (William) Good & Co., at Bridport and launched in 1812.〔Winfield (2008), p.301.〕 She served with the Navy for only 10 years. During the War of 1812 she sailed from Halifax and captured several American privateers. Her greatest moment was her role in the 1819 British occupation of Ras al-Khaimah. ''Curlew'' was sold in 1822 in Bombay. She then had a 13 or so year career as an opium runner for James Matheson, one of the founders of the firm Jardine Matheson. ==War of 1812== Commander Michael Head was appointed to ''Curlew'' on 27 June 1812 and commissioned her in July. She was still at Portsmouth on 31 July when the British authorities seized the American ships there and at Spithead on the outbreak of the War of 1812. She therefore shared, with numerous other vessels, in the subsequent prize money for these vessels: ''Belleville'', ''Aeos'', ''Janus'', ''Ganges'', and ''Leonidas''. Head sailed ''Curlew'' for North America on 28 August.〔〔Head was a native of Nova Scotia having been born to physician in Halifax.〕 On 31 October, ''Curlew'' was in company with , and when ''Shannon'' captured the privateer brig ''Thorn''. ''Thorn'' was armed with eighteen long 9-pounders and had a crew of 140 men.〔Nova Scotia. Vice-admiralty court, Halifax (1911), p. 183.〕 ''Thorn'', of Salem, was under the command of Captain T. Harper and was three weeks into her first cruise. Prior to being herself captured, ''Thorn'' had captured a brig carrying salt.〔Emmons (1853), p.194.〕 Next month, on 6 November, ''Curlew'' and the same squadron recaptured the brig ''Friendship''. A privateer had captured her while she was sailing from Quebec to Tenerife.〔''Bulletins of the campaign (from the London gazette )'', 1813, p.135.〕 ''Curlew'' was among the vessels that shared in the capture on 1 February 1813 of the ship ''Hebe''. ''Hebe'' had been sailing from Smyrna to London. In March 1813, ''Nymphe'', and ''Curlew'' sent in to Halifax a ship from Wiscasset, that had been bound for Saint Barts.〔''The Acadian Recorder'', 1 May 1813, p. 3.〕 On April 2, ''Curlew'' brought into Halifax the American letter of marquee ''Volante'' of 22 guns,〔Akins (1895), p.155.〕 or 14 guns,〔The Gentleman's magazine, Volume 176, p.332.〕 and 90 men.〔 Actually, ''Volante'' was pierced for 22 guns but carried only ten 24-pounder carronades and four long 9-pounders,〔Keinast & Felt (2009), p.85.〕 giving her a broadside roughly half that of ''Curlew's''. Taking ''Volante'' involved an exchange of shots but no casualties were reported.〔Murdock (1865-67), p. 340.〕 ''Lloyd's List'' describes ''Volant'', of Boston, as being of 550 tons bm, armed with twenty 24-pounders, and having a crew of 90 men. She had been sailing from Bayonne with a cargo of wine, silks, brandy, and the like.〔''Lloyd's List'',() -accessed 15 December 2013.〕 ''Curlew'' captured the ''Sally'' on 24 April. She was of 143 tons burthen, out of Salem, and sailing to St Margaret's. On 2 May the American frigates and fell in with ''Curlew''. Fortunately, Head was able to out-sail them and she escaped.〔Spears (1897) p.358.〕 Nineteen days later, ''Curlew'' and the frigate ''Tenedos'' captured the American privateer schooner ''Enterprise'', of four guns and 91 men, out of Salem.〔〔''The Gentleman's Magazine'', Volume 83, Part 2, p.483.〕 ''Enterprise'' had been on a four-month-long cruise off Brazil but had not taken any prizes. In July, ''Curlew'' captured three small schooners. She captured two on 7 July, the ''Swift'', of 63 tons bm, from Cape cod to Ipswich, and the ''Two Brothers'', 53 tons bm, from Kennebeck, and also sailing to Ipswich. Two days later ''Curlew'' captured the schooner ''Precilla'', of 61 tons bm, sailing to Boston. Then almost a month later, on 7 August, ''Curlew'' captured the sloop ''Eunice''. In between, on 8 July, ''Curlew'' was in sight when ''Hogue'' captured the ''Fanny''. In August 1813, ''Curlew'' and ''Nymphe'' captured three small prizes. On 12 August they took the fishing vessel ''The Gennet''. Then five days later they captured the sloop ''Endeavor'', sailing from Castine to Boston. In between, on 14 August, ''Nymphe''s yawl (armed with a carronade), and supported by ''Curlew''s boats, chased a schooner for eight hours off Cape Cod, in little wind, before they captured her. The schooner was the letter of marque ''Paragon'', of 157 tons burthen, 20 men, and pierced for 16 guns but carrying four, two 12-pounders and two 9-pounders. ''Paragon'', of Massachusetts, was under the command of Captain W. Weston.〔Emmons (1853), p.188.〕 On 9 April 1814 ''Curlew'' captured the brig ''Plutus''. Then on 4 May she captured the Spanish brig ''Maria Francisca'', which ''Victorious'' had earlier captured, as had . On 25 May ''Curlew'' recaptured the ''Ontario''. That same day, together with , she recaptured the brig ''Two Brothers''. The next day, ''Curlew'' and ''Martin'' recaptured the brig ''Thomas and Sally''. On 28 May 1814 ''Curlew'' was in Halifax, having retaken and sent in the ''Ontario'' and other vessels.〔''Essex Institute historical collections'', Volume 47, p. 24.〕 Commander Hugh Pearson assumed command in June after Head was promoted to post-captain on 7 June. 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 Curlew (1812)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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