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HMS ''Entreprenante'' (also ''Entreprenant''), was a 10-gun cutter that the Royal Navy captured from the French in 1798. The British commissioned her in 1799 and she served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, participating in the Battle of Trafalgar. She has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name. The ship is thought to have been built in France in 1798.〔(National Nautical Museum, Greenwich )〕 ==Early career== ''Entreprenante'' was commissioned in February 1799 under Lieutenant Charles Claridge.〔 In April she was under the command of Lieutenant William Swiney.〔 On 3 March 1800, ''Entreprenante'', and shared in the capture of the ''Madona del Grazie'', which they sent into Leghorn. On 29 March, ''Entreprenante'' captured a Genoese vessel from Capraia bound for Genoa with a cargo of corn. ''Entreprenante'' was among the handful of vessels that shared by agreement with ''Phaeton'' in the proceeds of the capture on 14 April by ''Phaeton'' and of the ''St. Rosalia''. Next, ''Entreprenante'' was among the vessels that shared in the proceeds of the capture off Genoa, on 28 April, of the ''Proteus''. On 21 January 1801, ''Entreprenante'' brought dispatches to Jaffa. Then on 2 March she protected the left flank during the landing of troops in Aboukir Bay. The schooner ''Malta'' and the gun-vessel assisted her. protected the left flank, together with the cutter and the gun-vessel ''Dangereuse''.〔 In 1850, the Admiralty authorized the issue of the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt" to any surviving members of her crew that came forward to claim it. ''Entreprenante'' was paid off in December 1802. From 28 November 1802 to 7 January 1804, she was in Portsmouth, refitting.〔 She was recommissioned on 1 December 1803 under Lieutenant James Brown, for the Channel.〔 On 12 April 1804, Lieutenant Robert Benjamin Young took command. On 30 May 1805, the sloop , Commander Joseph James, and ''Entreprenante'' captured the Prussian sloop ''Omnibus''.〔 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 Entreprenante (1799)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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