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} |} HMS ''Glatton'' was a 56-gun fourth rate of the Royal Navy. She was launched as the ''Glatton'', an East Indiaman, on 29 November 1792 by Wells & Co. of Blackwell. The Royal Navy bought her in 1795 and converted her into a warship. ''Glatton'' was unusual in that for a time she was the only ship-of-the-line the Royal Navy armed exclusively with carronades. (Eventually she returned to a more conventional armament.) She served in the North Sea and the Baltic, and then as a transport for convicts to Australia. She then returned to naval service in the Mediterranean. After the end of the Napoleonic Wars the Admiralty converted her to a water depot at Sheerness. In 1830 the Admiralty converted ''Glatton'' to a breakwater and sank her at Harwich. ==East India Company service== In 1793-4 ''Glatton'' made one round trip to China for the East India Company. Her captain was Charles Drummond and her First Lieutenant was William Macnamarra. Drummond had commanded an earlier ''Glatton'' and would command a later one too; Macnamarra too would go on to command a later ''Glatton'' on a trip to China for the Company.〔Hardy and Hardy (1811).〕 ''Glatton''s letter of marque was dated 22 August 1793.〔Letter of Marque,() - accessed 14 May 2011.〕 The letter of marque permitted her, while under Drummond's command, to assist in the capture of the French brig ''Le Franc''. It was issued after ''Glatton'' had left Portsmouth on 22 May 1793.〔 ''Glatton'' was part of a convoy that also included the East Indiamen ''Prince William'', ''Lord Thurlow'', ''William Pitt'', ''Barwell'', ''Earl of Oxford'', ''Osterley'', ''Fort William'', ''London'', ''Pigot'', ''Houghton'', ''Marquis of Landsdown'', ''Hillsborough'', ''Ceres'', and ''Earl of Abergavenny'', amongst numerous other vessels, merchant and military, most of the non-Indiamen travelling to the Mediterranean.〔''Gentleman's magazine'' (May 1793), Vol 63, part. 1, p. 474.〕 From Portsmouth, ''Glatton'' reached Manilla on 10 November, and then Whampoa two weeks later. On her return voyage, she crossed Second Bar on 17 February 1794, reached St Helena on 18 June, and Long Reach by 12 September.〔National Archives - ''Glatton'' (3).()〕 The next East Indiaman ''Glatton'', also sailing with a letter of marque, captured a Dutch prow in the Straits of Flores in 1796, and the ship ''Copenhagen'' in 1799. 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 Glatton (1795)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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