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} |} HMS ''Kingfisher'' (or ''Kings Fisher'' or ''Kingsfisher'') was a Royal Navy 18-gun ship sloop, built by John King and launched in 1804 at Dover. She served during the Napoleonic Wars, first in the Caribbean and then in the Mediterranean before being broken up in 1816. ==Caribbean== ''Kingfisher'' was commissioned under Commander Richard William Cribb in April 1804.〔Winfield (2008), p.258.〕 He sailed her to the Leeward Islands and initially she operated from Barbados. In January ''King's Fisher'' captured the French privateer schooner ''Deux Amis''. She was pierced for eight guns but only had two on board at the time of her capture, having thrown the others overboard as she tried to escape her pursuers. She had a crew of 39 men, under the command of Francis Dutrique. She was ten days out of Guadeloupe and had captured nothing. Cribb credited His Majesty's schooner with having chased ''Deux Amis'' into his hands. Furthermore, when ''Grenada''s commander saw that ''Kingfisher'' would capture ''Deux Amis'', he chased and recaptured the sloop ''Hero''. On 11 April 1805, her boats cut out the Spanish privateer ''Damas'' from an anchorage under Cape St. Juan. She was pierced for four guns but only mounted one 8-pounder. She also carried 40 muskets for her crew of 57 men. ''Damas'' had left Cumaná, Venezuela, ten days earlier for a cruise off Demerara on what was her first cruise, but had captured nothing. She put up a little resistance and there was fire from the shore, but ''Kingsfisher'' suffered no casualties. In April 1826 head money for the capture of the ''Deux Amis'' and the ''Damas'' was finally paid. On 27 June, when about 180 miles to north-east of Barbuda, ''Kingfisher'', Captain Richard William Cribb, and , Captain Timothy Clinch, found themselves being chased by French frigates. While making sail to escape, the two sloops hoisted signals and fired guns, as if signaling to a fleet ahead. Their pursuers immediately gave up the chase, which gave ''Kingfisher'' and ''Osprey'' the opportunity to catch up with a group of 15 French merchant vessels with cargoes of rum, sugar and coffee. The two British sloops left all 15 merchantmen in flames.〔James (1837), Vol. 3, pp.339-40.〕 Cribb died in June 1805. From July ''Kingfisher'' was under the command of Commander Nathaniel Day Cochrane.〔 On 16 December ''Kingfisher'' captured the French privateer ''Elisabeth'', out of Guadaloupe after a 12-hour chase. ''Elizabeth'' was armed with ten 6-pounder guns and four 9-pounder carronades. She had a crew of 102, but 11 men were away in the ''Cambrian'', which ''Elizabeth'' had captured after ''Cambrian'' had left a convoy on 28 October. ''Cambrian'' had been carrying a cargo of coal from Cork to Jamaica. Cochrane noted that ''Elizabeth'' was a fine vessel, well worth taking into the Royal Navy, which advice the Navy took, commissioning her as .〔 Also that day ''Kingfisher'' and captured a Spanish polacca sailing to Vera Cruz with merchandise. On 28 December ''Kingsfisher'' and captured the Spanish merchant brig ''Solidad'', which was carrying brandy and wine from Cadiz to Vera Cruz. In 1806, ''Kingfisher'' was attached to the British squadron under Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth. On 1 February she brought intelligence that a French squadron of three sail of the line had been seen steering towards the city of Santo Domingo. Duckworth gathered his squadron and on 6 February met the French in the Battle of San Domingo. ''Kingfisher'' was highly commended for her services in the aftermath of the action, with Cochrane being promoted to Post-captain. In 1807 ''Kingfisher'' shared with the rest of Duckworth's squadron in the prize money for the capture of the ''Alexander'', ''Jupiter'' and ''Brave''. In 1847 the Admiralty would issue to any surviving crew members that claimed it the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "St. Domingo". George Francis Seymour, who had been severely wounded while serving in in the battle of San Domingo, succeeded Cochrane. She then sailed for the Channel.〔 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 Kingfisher (1804)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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