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} |} HMS ''Flirt'' was launched in 1782 but was completed too late to see any significant service in the American War of Independence. She then spent most of the years of peace in British waters. She sailed to Jamaica in 1791, but was laid up in Deptford in November 1792, and did not return to service before being sold in 1795. Daniel Bennett purchased her, had her almost rebuilt, and then employed her as a whaler in the South seas Fisheries. A French privateer captured her in 1803 as ''Flirt'' was returning to Britain from a whaling voyage. ==Royal Navy== Commander Nathan Brunton commissioned ''Flirt'' for the North Sea in March 1782. She was then paid off in 1783, but recommissioned in April under Commander William Luke and stationed between Beachy Head and the Isle of Wight.〔 She remained on that station through the tenure of her next two captains. ''Flirt'' was paid off in 1786 before Commander Piercy Brett recommissioned her in May. Commander John Stevens Hall replaced Brett in 1788, only to have Commander James Norman replace him in 1789.〔 Norman recommissioned her in May 1790 for the Spanish Armament.〔 George Bass, who would go on to achieve fame as an explorer, qualified as a surgeon for a first-rate (as a 13-year old), but his first appointment was to ''Flirt''. Commander James Nicoll Morris recommissioned ''Flirt'' in may 1790 for the Channel.〔 He sailed her for Jamaica on on 22 November 1791. However, after she returned to Britain she was laid up at Deptford in November 1792.〔 The Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy offered the "Hull of His Majesty's Sloop Flirt. Burthen 200 tons, copper fastened, with Copper on her Bottom", for sale at Deptford on 1 December 1795. SH sold on that day for £450.〔 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 Flirt (1782)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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