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HMS ''Medea'' was a 28-gun ''Enterprise''-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The ''Medea'' was first commissioned in May 1778 under the command of Captain William Cornwallis. She was sold for breaking up in 1805. ==Career== ''Medea'' and HM hired ship ''Countess of Scarborough'' shared in the capture, on 17 June 1779, of the French privateers ''Compte de Maurepas'' and ''Due de la Vauguyon''. ''Medea'' captured ''Due de la Vauguyon'' (or ''Duc de Lavaugnon'') of Dunkirk, a cutter of 14 guns and 98 men, after a fight of an hour. The fight cost the French four men killed and ten wounded; ''Medea'' had no casualties. The Royal Navy took her into service as . ''Duc de la Vauguyon'' had captured and ransomed a lobster smack sailing from Norway to Britain. The master of the smack informed Captain James Montague of ''Medea'' that the privateer had had a consort. ''Medea''s rigging was too cut up for her to pursue the consort, so Montague sent ''Countess of Scarborough'', Captain Thomas Piercy, after her. Piercy caught up with ''Compte de Maurepas'', of Dunkirk, after a few hours and the privateer struck without resistance. She was armed with fourteen 4-pounder guns and had a crew of 87 men.〔Beatson (1804), Vol. 4, p.558.〕 On 5 May 1781 ''Medea'' assisted ''Roebuck'' in the capture off Sandy Hook of the ''Protector'', a 28-gun frigate of the Massachusetts State Navy. The prisoners were taken off to the prison hulk ''Jersey'' (Boston Gazette, 5, 19 March, 30 April, 14 May, 2 July 1781; Independent Chronicle, 4 May 1781; Massachusetts Mag., July, October, 1910, January, 1911, January, 1912; Mass. Court Rec., 14 February, 3, 6, 7 March, 19 May 1781 ; Mass. Rev. Rolls, xxxix, 45; Mass. Archives, clviii, 212; Fox, 79-88.) http://www.americanrevolution.org/navy/nav16.html On 7 September 1781 ''Medea'' captured the ''Belisarius'', "a fast sailing frigate of 26 guns and 147 men, belonging to Salem". ''Medea'' captured her off the Delaware River. and shared in the capture. The Royal Navy took her into service as the sixth rate HMS , but then sold her in 1783, after the end of the war. ''Medea'' made a number of other captures in summer 1781. These included the ship ''Phoenix'' (1 June), the ship ''Rover'' (20 June), the schooner ''Neptune'' (30 July; with ''Amphitrite'' and ''General Monk''), and the brig ''Marianne'' (3 August).〔 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 Medea (1778)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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