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HMS ''Epervier'' was an 18-gun ''Cruizer''-class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy built by Ross at Rochester, England, and launched on 2 December 1812. The USS ''Peacock'' captured her in 1814 and took her into service. The USS ''Epervier'' disappeared in 1815 while carrying dispatches reporting the signing of a treaty with the Dey of Algiers. ==War of 1812== ''Epervier'' was commissioned in January 1813 under Commander Richard Walter Wales.〔 On 20 August 1813, ''Epervier'' captured the schooner ''Lively'', which was sailing from St. Thomas to Halifax.〔''London Gazette'', Issue 16837, 1 January 1814, p.20-1〕 Then one month later, on 20 September, she captured the ''Active''.〔 Under her master, E. Altberg, ''Active'', of 390 tons (bm), was sailing from Gottenburg to Boston with a cargo of iron.〔Vice-admiralty court, Halifax (1911), p.96.〕 Three days later, ''Epervier'', and captured the ''Resolution''. On 5 October ''Epervier'' and captured the American privateer, ''Portsmouth Packet''. She had been the Liverpool Packet, a noted Nova Scotian privateer, and returned to successful privateering under the ''Liverpool Packet'' name after the British recaptured her. At the time of her capture, ''Portsmouth Packet'' was armed with five guns, carried a crew of 45, and had sailed from Portsmouth the previous day. Almost a month later, on 3 November, ''Epervier '' and ''Fantome'' captured the ''Peggy'' of 91 tons (bm), W. O. Fuller, master, which was sailing from George's River to Boston with a cargo of timber and wood.〔Vice-admiralty court, Halifax (1911), p.145.〕 On 23 February 1814 ''Epervier'' was cruising off Cape Sable, when she captured the American privateer-brig ''Alfred'', of Salem.〔Winfield (2008), p.304.〕 ''Alfred'', which mounted 16 long 9-pounders and had a crew, variously described, as being of 94 or 108 men, surrendered without a fight.〔 (The British 38-gun frigate , under the command of Captain Clotworthy Upton, was in sight about 10 miles to leeward.)〔 While returning to Halifax with ''Alfred'', Wales found out that some of his crew were plotting with the prisoners from ''Alfred'' to take over one or both vessels and escape to America. Wales continued on to Halifax, where he arrived two days later, having sailed through a gale to do so. There he notified his uncle, Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren, the commanding officer of the station, that he didn't trust his crew. Warren dismissed Wales' concerns and she sailed on 3 March with the same crew.〔James (1837), Vol 6, p.291-4.〕〔Marshall (1830), Supplement, Part 4, pp.127.〕 She and the schooner ''Shelburne'' sailed with a small convoy bound to Bermuda and the West Indies.〔 Before she left Halifax, Wales exchanged her two 6-pounder bow chasers and the carronade for her launch for two 18-pounder carronades.〔 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 Epervier (1812)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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