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HMS ''Ferret'' was a Royal Navy ''Cruizer''-class brig-sloop built by Benjamin Tanner at Dartmouth and launched in 1806, 19 months late.〔Winfield (2008), p.292.〕 She served on the Jamaica, Halifax, and Leith (North Sea) stations during which time she took three privateers as prizes before she was wrecked in 1813. ==Service== She was commissioned in March 1806 under Commander George Cadogan. On 21 June he sailed for the Leeward Islands.〔 In early 1807 Lieutenant John Bowker may have briefly commanded ''Ferret'' before being promoted to commander and captain of .} Commander George Gustavus Lennock then took command of ''Ferret'' in Jamaica. On 23 August 1807, ''Ferret'', in company with ''Lark'', captured the French privateer schooner ''Mosquito'', out of Santo Domingo.〔 She had eight guns and a crew of 58 men, and had been cruising for some time without success.〔.〕 Commander Samuel John Pechell took command of ''Ferret'' on 23 March 1808 on the Jamaica station. In April he sailed her for the Halifax station. On 16 June 1808 he received a promotion to post-captain. From June 1808 she was under Commander Richard Walter Wales.〔Later, Wales would be captain of ''Ferret's'' sister ship ''Epervier'' when she fell victim to ''Peacock''.〕 On 26 October ''Ferret'' chased a French privateer schooner for four hours before ''Ferret'' was able to take her. The schooner was the ''Becune'', and she was armed with one long 9-pounder gun amidships and two carronades and carried a crew of 38 men. She was ten days out of Martinique and had made one capture.〔''Gentleman's magazine and historical chronicle'', Volume 79, Part 1, p.265.〕 In March 1809, ''Ferret'' and captured three French schooners. They were the ''June Rose'' (3 March), ''Rivals'' (12 March), and ''Duguay-Trouin'' (30 March). ''Duguay Trouin'' was a letter of marque schooner. She was commissioned in April in the Royal Navy to carry eight guns. She then served in Sir John Borlase Warren's squadron as .〔Gwyn (2003), p.175, fn. 124.〕 Between November 1811 and February 1812 ''Ferret'' underwent repairs at Portsmouth, with Commander Francis Alexander Halliday assuming command in December 1811.〔 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 Ferret (1806)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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