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} |} HMS ''Hyaena'' (HMS ''Hyæna'') was a 24-gun ''Porcupine''-class post-ship of the Royal Navy launched in 1778. The French captured her in 1793, took her into service as ''Hyène'', and then sold her. She became a privateer that the British captured in 1797. The Royal Navy took her back into service as ''Hyaena'' and she continued to serve until the Navy sold her in 1802. ==Early service== Launched in March 1778, she was commissioned in January 1779 for service in British home waters and the Caribbean, under the command of Captain Edward Thompson. She saw active service in the blockade and capture of French-controlled Gorée in April 1779, and eight months later was part of Admiral George Rodney's fleet which sailed to the naval relief of Gibraltar in January 1780.〔 ''Hyaena'' then returned to England, bearing reports of the battle and the disposition of Admiral Rodney's fleet. In August 1780, still under Thompson's command, ''Hyaena'' escorted a merchant convoy to New York and then turned south to the Caribbean. Thompson's orders were to use his ship and any other forces at his disposal to secure British control of Dutch settlements of Demerara and Essequibo. This was achieved despite a lack of resources, with ''Hyaena'' subsequently escorting merchant convoys between these new British possessions and the larger port of Barbados, and thence to England. Convoy in tow, ''Hyaena'' reached England in January 1782. Eighteen months in tropical waters had left her in poor condition, and she was promptly decommissioned and sailed to Woolwich dockyards for repair. The works were extensive and were completed at a final expense of ₤5,561, more than half the cost of ''Hyaena''s original construction four years earlier.〔 While ''Hyaena'' was out of service her captain, Edward Thompson, had been assigned to the newly built , a 50-gun ship of the line. Command of ''Hyaena'' passed to Captain Patrick Sinclair, whose orders were to protect shipping in the seas immediately surrounding the British Isles. Recommissioned in January 1783, ''Hyaena'' took up this new role in April and remained at this station for the next five years.〔 In 1784, she was briefly under the command of the Honourable M.De Courcy (Acting),〔 〕 until Sinclair resumed command. In 1787 De Courcy took command of ''Hyaena'' on the Irish station.〔 May saw ''Hyaena'' serving as the initial escort for the convoy of ships that would become the First Fleet to Australia, sailing alongside the fleet to a point two hundred miles west of the Scilly Isles.〔Keneally 2005, pp.61, 68-69〕 In 1788 ''Hyaena'' was again decommissioned to allow a four-month refit at Plymouth Dockyard for a cost of ₤4,439.〔 After a brief period of service in the Irish Sea under the command of Captain John Aylmer, she returned to the English Channel where she remained throughout 1790 and early 1791. In mid-1791 she was under the command of Captain James Kineer,〔 as the Navy relegated her to the status of an impressment vessel at Bristol, holding press-ganged sailors aboard until they could be transferred to Navy vessels departing for foreign service.〔 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 Hyaena (1778)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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