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HMS ''Lancaster'' was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 29 January 1797 at Rotherhithe. She was designed and built as the East Indiaman ''Pigot'' for the British East India Company, but the Navy purchased her on the stocks because of a shortage of naval vessels to prosecute the French Revolutionary Wars. ==Career== In July 1800, Vice-Admiral Roger Curtis sent ''Lancaster'', , , and to blockade Île de France and Bourbon. They remained until October and during this period shared in the proceeds of several captures.〔Government of the Cape Colony (1899), Vol. 3, p.317.〕 *Spanish ship ''Edouard'' (August).〔 This vessel may actually have been a French ship of 300 tons (bm), carrying naval stores, wine, brandy, and the like from Bordeaux to Isle de France.〔 *French brig ''Paquebot'' (August).〔 She had been sailing from Isle de France to Bourbon with a cargo of wine and goods from India.〔 *Spanish brig ''Numero Sete'' (August).〔 ''Numero Septo'' had been sailing from Montevideo to Isle de France with a cargo of soap, tallow, candles, and provisions.〔 *French brig ''Mouche'' and part of the cargo and materials from the wreck of the brig ''Uranie'' (September). 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 Lancaster (1797)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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