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} |} HMS ''Harpy'' was a Royal Navy ''Diligence''-class brig-sloop, launched in 1796 and sold in 1817. She was the longest lived vessel of her class, and the most widely travelled. She served in both the battle of Copenhagen and the British invasion of Java, took part in several actions, one of which won for her crew a clasp to the Naval General Service Medal, and captured numerous privateers. ==French Revolutionary Wars== Commander Henry Bazely commission ''Harpy'' in April 1796, for The Downs.〔 ''Harpy'' belonged to the squadron that on 20 August captured the ''Augustic'' and recaptured the ''Nelly''. Consequently ''Harpy'' was entitled to share in the prize money. On 25 December, ''Harpy'' captured the ''Hoop'', Pronck, master. ''Harpy'' was in company with the hired armed cutter ''Hind''. also shared in the proceeds of the capture. On 3 February 1797 ''Harpy'' was off Dungeness Point when she fell in with the hired armed cutter ''Lion'', which was in the process of detaining a sloop that had been trailing a convoy. The sloop turned out to be the French privateer ''Requin'', of Dieppe, which had a crew of 20 men armed with small arms. ''Lion'' was in company with hired armed cutter ''Dolphin''. The next day ''Harpy'' recaptured the ''Liberty'', of Newcastle, which had been a prize to ''Requin''. ''Harpy'' took both into Portsmouth.〔''Lloyd's List'',() - accessed 22 January 2014.〕 Also in February, ''Harpy'' captured the privateer ''Cotentin''.〔 On 8 May, ''Harpy'' captured the Russian hoy ''Leyden and Fourcoing''. ''Harpy'' was in company with and . Eight days later ''Harpy'' captured the ''Goede Hope''; ''Harpy'' was in company with the hired armed cutter ''Princess of Wales''. Then on 26 May ''Harpy'' recaptured the ''Friendship''. ''Friendship'' had been sailing from Southampton to Leith and ''Harpy'' took her into Dover.〔''Lloyd's List'',() - accessed 22 January 2014.〕 A biography of Bazely reports that in May ''Harpy'' drove a French brig of eighteen 9-pounder guns and a cutter of 14 guns on shore near Dieppe. Furthermore, in connection with that action, ''Harpy'' fired on the buildings of the port, damaging several, including particularly the Customs House.〔Marshall (1824), Vol. 2, pp.250-3.〕 On 20 June ''Harpy'' captured the French privateer ''Espérance''. ''Espérance'' was a rowboat, armed with 10 swivel guns and having a crew of 32 men, and the capture took place of the coast of France.〔Norie (1827), p.487.〕 The same biography reports that ''Harpy'' had captured two privateers, one of four guns and the other a rowboat, and recaptured two coasting vessels. The description of the rowboat matches that of ''Esperance'', suggesting that the privateer of four guns may have been the ''Cotentin''.〔 In May 1798 ''Harpy'' participated in Sir Home Riggs Popham's expedition to Ostend to destroy the sluice gates of the Ostend-Bruge Canal. ''Harpy'' let the smaller vessels that were to lie as beacons N. W. of Ostend. The expedition landed 1,300 troops under Major General Coote. The army contingent blew up the locks and gates of the canal, but due to unfavourable winds preventing re-embarkation, Coote and the men under his command were then forced to surrender. ''Harpy'' recaptured the ship ''Pleaaden'' in October. On 20 May 1799 ''Harpy'' and ''Suffisante'' were in sight when ''Savage'' captured the ship ''Johanna Maria''. On 3 June ''Babet'' was in company with ''Harpy'' when they captured the ''John''. Then on 24 June they captured the ship ''Weloverdagt''. Early in the morning of 5 February 1800, the sloops and ''Harpy'' left Saint Aubin's Bay, where they were attached to the Jersey squadron under the command of Captain Philippe d'Auvergne, (Prince of Bouillon), and reconnoitered the coast around Saint-Malo. In late morning they were some five or six miles from Cap Fréhel when they sighted a large vessel, which turned out to be a French frigate.〔 The sloops were able to lure the frigate away from the coast and an action developed that lasted from 1pm to 2:45pm before the French vessel sailed away. The sloops had a lot of damage to their rigging but once this was repaired they set out in pursuit. At 4pm they encountered the British frigate, ''Loire'', the sixth-rate post ship , and the ship-sloop , which joined the chase. That evening, after a close action of more than two hours, ''Loire'' succeeded in getting the 42-gun French frigate ''Pallas'' to strike. ''Pallas'' was on her maiden voyage and the Royal Navy took her into service as .〔James (1837), Vol. 2, pp.29-32.〕 The next day, ''Danae'' was able to capture a French naval cutter.〔 The British vessels suffered some casualties. ''Fairy'' had four men killed and seven wounded, among them her captain. ''Harpy'' had one man killed and three wounded. ''Loire'' had two men killed and 17 wounded, one of them mortally. Lastly, ''Railleur'' had two men killed and four wounded. Captain James Newman Newman of ''Loire'' did not report the French casualties. The action resulted in promotions to post captain for both Captain Joshua Sidney Horton of ''Fairy'' and for Bazely. Horton was promoted on 18 February, but Bazely was not promoted until 8 April due to some ambiguity about ''Harpy''s role in the capture of ''Pallas''.〔 In 1847 the Admiralty awarded the Naval General Service medal with clasps "Fairy" and "Harpy" to the surviving claimants from the action. Captain William Birchall, of the troopship ''Hebe'' replaced Bazely on ''Harpy''.〔 Two French privateers, each of 14 guns and 90 men, captured the ''Constitution'' on 9 January 1801 off the Isle of Portland. ''Constitution'' was a hired cutter of twelve 4-pounder guns and 40 men, under the command of Lieutenant W.H. Faulknor. That same evening ''Harpy'' and the revenue cutter ''Greyhound'' recaptured ''Constitution''.〔Norie (1827), pp.179 & 458.〕 On 2 April 1801, ''Harpy'' was in Admiral Lord Nelson's division at the battle of Copenhagen. She apparently was not involved in the actual fighting as she suffered no casualties. Commander Charles Boys replaced Birchall, but shortly thereafter ''Harpy'' was paid off.〔 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 Harpy (1796)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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