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} |} HMS ''Imogen'' (or ''Imogene'') was a British Royal Navy 16-gun brig-sloop of the ''Seagull'' class launched in July 1805. She served primarily in the Adriatic campaign before the Navy sold her in 1817. ==Career== Commander Thomas Garth commissioned ''Imogen'' in August 1805 for the North Sea.〔 On 18 April 1806 she captured the Prussian galliot ''Broderlusde'', and on 23 August the ''Bergitta''. Garth sailed for the Mediterranean on 26 June 1807.〔 On 13 September ''Imogen'' captured the Danish vessel ''Commandant van Scholten''. On 27 January 1808 ''Imogen'' captured the brig ''William Tell'' and her cargo. In March Commander William Stephens replaced Garth.〔 The British, having decided to capture the island of Saint Maura, north of Corfu, Stephens and ''Imogen'' became part of a squadron that also included , under the command of Captain George Eyre, who was the naval commander, , three gunboats, and five transports carrying troops. When the squadron arrived on 21 March 1810, Eyre ordered Stephens to take the gunboats and to anchor as close to shore as possible to cover the landing of the troops and to silence two small shore batteries there. The next day the operations began. The batteries fired on ''Imogen'' and the gunboats, but were soon silenced. Stephens went ashore and was wounded in the foot storming the redoubts that protected the citadel. Even so, on 25 March he sailed with ''Imogen'', ''Belle Poule'', and the gunboats to the north of the island to prevent the enemy from landing reinforcements. The citadel finally capitulated on 15 April. The only casualty on ''Imogen'' was Stephens. ''Imogen'' shared in the prize money for the Franco-Italian 10-gun brig ''Carlotta'', captured on 10 December 1810. ''Imogen'' shared the prize money with the actual captor, , and two other vessels. On 30 January 1811, , , ''Belle Poule'' and ''Imogen'' destroyed the Italian man-of-war schooner ''Leoben''. ''Leoben'' was sailing along the Albanian coast from Venice to Corfu with a cargo of ordnance stores when the British caught her. She was armed with ten guns and a crew of 60 men.〔''The Gentleman's magazine'', Volume 81, Part 1, p.573.〕 Her own crew set her on fire and she subsequently blew up.〔''The Gentleman's magazine and historical review'', Volume 42, p.319.〕 In February 1813 ''Imogen'' was still in the Mediterranean and under the command of Lieutenant Charles Taylor (acting). , ''Imogen'', and troops captured Augusta and Carzola Islands. On 1 February ''Apollo'', ''Imogen'', and Gunboat ''No. 43'', under the command of Mr. Antonio Pardo, sailed to Carzola. There ''Imogen'' and the gunboat supported an attack by Captain Taylor of ''Apollo'', who commanded a landing party that silenced several sea batteries. When the town capitulated the British captured a privateer that had "molested the trade of the Adriatic", and two of her prizes. That day the British also captured seven vessels in the Channel, sailing to Ragusa and Cattaro, principally with grain, which was in short supply there. Commander William Bamber was appointed to ''Imogene'' on 7 October 1813, on the Clyde. In 1815 Lieutenant John Gilmore replaced Bamber.〔 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 Imogen (1805)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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