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} |} HMS ''Highflyer'' was originally an American privateer schooner built in 1811. As a privateer she took several British vessels as prizes. The Royal Navy captured her in 1813. She then participated in several raids on the Chesapeake and coastal Virginia before the Americans recaptured her later in 1813. ==As a privateer== ''Highflyer'' was built in Dorchester County, Maryland in 1811, and operated out of Baltimore. She was originally set up for six long nine-pounder cannon. She apparently sailed with one long 12-pounder and four 9-pounder carronades. Under Captain John Gavet, on 21 July 1812 she captured the British merchantman ''Jamaica'', with seven guns and 21 men, and the ''Diana''. The next day, she captured the ''Mary Ann'', with 12 guns and 18 men. On 26 August, she sent into Baltimore the schooner ''Harriet'', of four guns, which had been sailing from New Providence to Havana. On her second cruise, under Captain Jeremiah Grant, she captured the brig ''Porgie'', sailing from Antigua, and the brig ''Burchall'', traveling from Barbados to Demerara, plus a number of coasting vessels operating among islands of the West Indies. She also took the brig ''Fernando'', which was, however, retaken.〔Cranwell and Crane (1940), pp.371-401.〕 Lastly, she sent into Charleston the ten-gun brig ''Active''.〔Scharff (1881), p.106.〕〔Maclay (1899), p.452.〕 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 Highflyer (1813)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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