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} |} ''Lillebælt'' was a Danish 22-gun warship launched in 1801. The Danes surrendered her to the Royal Navy in 1807 and she became the 20-gun post ship HMS ''Little Belt''. In a single-ship action in 1811 while the United States of America was at peace with Great Britain, USS ''President'' fired on ''Little Belt'', ostensibly believing her to be , which had recently abducted a sailor from USS ''Spitfire''. This action was the eponymous "Little Belt Affair". Her captain at the time, Arthur Batt Bingham, maintained that the Americans fired first and that although his vessel had suffered heavy casualties he had not at any time surrendered. She was broken up in 1811. ==Career== She was built in 1801 to a design by P.C. Hohlenberg as the 460-ton Danish 22-gun ''let fregat'' (light frigate or corvette) ''Lillebælt''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Danish Military History website (British Design Plans of captured Danish Warships) )〕 She was among the vessels that the British seized after the Battle of Copenhagen on 7 September 1807.〔Paine ''et al.'' (1997), p.96.〕 She then sailed in convoy with the to Britain, arriving on 24 October at Woolwich. She was fitted there until 14 May 1809.〔Winfield (2008), p. 241.〕 The Royal Navy commissioned her under the anglicised version of her name and placed under the command of John Crispo.〔 By 1808 she was off the African coast, but later returned to Britain.〔O'Byrne (1849), Vol. 1, p.242.〕 In May 1809 she recaptured and sent into Portsmouth the Swedish ship ''Neptunus'', which had been taken while sailing from Alicante.〔''Lloyd's Marine List'',() - accessed 30 November 2013.〕 Then on 23 June ''Little Belt'' sailed for North America. Around this time the Royal Navy rescinded a decision to rename her ''Espion''.〔 On 27 September 1810 had been in pursuit of a French brig when ''Rhin'' joined the chase and after two and a half hours captured the quarry off the Lizard. The French vessel was the privateer ''San Joseph'', of Saint Malo, under the command of a Joseph Wittevronghel, a Dane. ''San Joseph'' was one year old, about 100 tons burthen (bm), and armed with 14 guns though she was pierced for 16. She had only been out one day when the British captured her and had taken nothing. ''Little Belt'' had been in company with ''Wolverine'' during the chase. Crispo was promoted to post-captain on 21 October 1810; Bingham succeeded him as commander of the ''Little Belt'' in November 1810.〔 Bingham then sailed her to Halifax to operate off the North American coast. By early 1811, ''Little Belt'' was in the Caribbean. On 25 March 1811, ''Little Belt'' captured the Spanish vessel ''Empressa''. At the time ''Little Belt'' was apparently under the command of Thomas Prickett. was either accompanying ''Little Belt'' or in sight of the capture and so shared in the prize money. ''Little Belt'' sent ''Empresa'', which had been sailing to Africa, into Bermuda, where she arrived about 10 April.〔''Lloyd's Marine List'',() - accessed 30 November 2013.〕 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 Little Belt (1807)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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