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HMS ''Harrier'' was a launched in 1804. She took part in several notable actions before she was lost, presumed foundered, in March 1809. ==Career== ''Harrier'' was commissioned in November 1804 under Commander William Woodridge, who sailed her for the East Indies on 24 December 1804. In 1805 Commander Edward Ratsey replaced Woodridge.〔Winfield (2008), p.294.〕 On 2 August 1805, ''Harrier'' fought the 40-gun ''Sémillante'', Captain Léonard-Bernard Motard, in the San Bernardino Strait off San Jacinto, Philippines, together with the , under Captain John Wood. After exchanges of fire first with ''Harrier'' and then with ''Phaeton'', ''Sémillante'' took refuge under the guns of a shore battery. Unable to dislodge her, the two British vessels eventually sailed off, each having suffered two men wounded. ''Sémillante'' was reported to have suffered 13 killed and 36 wounded. After resupplying at San Jacinto, ''Sémillante'' intended to sail for Mexico in March 1805 to fetch specie for the Philippines; the encounter with ''Phaeton'' and ''Harrier'' foiled the plan. Motard returned to the Indian Ocean, operating for the next three years against British shipping from Île de France.〔James (1837), Vol. 4, p. 153.〕 In 1806 Lieutenant Edward Troubridge took command. On 4 July ''Harrier'' was in company with , under the command of Captain Edward Elphinstone, when they captured and destroyed the Dutch East India Company’s brig ''Christian Elizabeth''. She was armed with eight guns and carried a crew of 80 men. The ''Christian Elizabeth'' was sheltering under the guns of Fort Manado.〔 ''Greyhound'' and ''Harrier'' then sailed across the Molucca Sea to the island of Tidon in the Celebes. There, on 6 July, they captured another enemy ship, the ''Belgica''. She was armed with 12 guns and had a crew of 32 men.〔 ''Greyhound'' and ''Harrier'' continued their cruise westward until the evening of 25 July when, in the Salayer Strait, they sighted four ships. The next morning they were able to bring the Dutch squadron to action.〔 (詳細は''Pallas'' struck to ''Greyhound''. ''Harrier'' engaged the two merchant vessels, ''Victoria'' and ''Batavier'', which struck to her. The fourth Dutch vessels, the corvette ''William'', which had not been engaged, escaped. Casualties on ''Pallas'' were heavy, with eight men killed outright and 32 wounded, including her captain and three of his lieutenants. Six of the wounded later died, including the Dutch captain. There were also four men killed on the East Indiamen and seven wounded, one of whom died later. British losses by contrast were light, with one man killed and eight wounded on ''Greyhound'' and just three wounded on ''Harrier''. Prize crews took the three captured ships to Port Cornwallis on South Andaman Island. Troubridge received promotion to commander in September,〔 and assumed command of HMS ''Celebes'', the former ''Pallas''.〔Winfield (2008), p.215.〕 Commander William Wilbrahim replaced Troubridge in ''Harrier''. Between 1 and 3 February 1807 Harrier endured a hurricane of Madagascar on her way to the Cape of Good Hope. She logged sightings of and , neither of which was ever seen again.〔Van Den Boogaerde (2008), pp.200-1.〕 ''Blenheim'' was the flagship of Admiral Sir Thomas Troubridge, father of Edward Troubridge. One of the passengers on ''Blenheim'' was Elphinstone, who had been recalled to Britain. ''Harrier'' herself reached the Cape of Good Hope, but not without difficulty, and refitted there.〔 In 1807, Commander George Pigot replaced Wilbrahim in command of ''Harrier''. Pigot was superseded in turn by Commander Justice Finley (acting), at the Cape of Good Hope.〔 Finley was captain of ''Harrier'' on 7 August 1807 when she captured the ''Helena''. ''Harrier'', , and shared in the capture of the ''Jeune Laure'' on 5 March 1808. Commander John James Ridge was captain of ''Harrier'' on 19 October 1808 when she captured the French ship ''Soeuffleur''. ''Harrier'', ''Nereid''e and shared in the capture on 5 January 1809 of the ''Goende Monche''. 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 Harrier (1804)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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