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} |} HMS ''Lynx'' was a 16-gun ship-rigged sloop of the ''Cormorant''-class in the Royal Navy, launched in 1794 at Gravesend.〔Winfield (2008).〕 In 1795 she was the cause of an international incident when she fired on the USRC ''Eagle''. She was at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801, and during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars took numerous prizes, mostly merchant vessels but also including some privateers. She was also at the second Battle of Copenhagen in 1807. She was sold in April 1813. ==French Revolutionary War== ''Lynx'' was commissioned in April 1794 under Commander Charles Vinicombe Penrose on the Halifax Station.〔 Penrose was promoted to Post-captain on 7 October 1794 and Commander Charles Rowley replaced Penrose in November.〔 On 17 November 1794, ''Lynx'' recaptured the ''Amphrite''. ''Cleopatra'' shared in the reward. By agreement, these vessels also shared the prize money with and . On 31 January 1795, Rear-Admiral George Murray, the commander-in-chief on the North America station, sent ''Lynx'', under the command of John Poo Beresford, and the newly-captured former French warship ''Esperance'' on a cruise out of Halifax. On 1 March the two vessels captured the ''Cocarde Nationale'' (or ''National Cockade''), a privateer from Charleston, South Carolina, of 14 guns, six swivels and 80 men. ''Esperance'' and ''Lynx'' recaptured the ship ''Norfolk'', of Belfast, and the brig ''George'', of Workington. 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 Lynx (1794)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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