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} |} HMS ''Meleager'' was a 36-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1806 and wrecked on 30 July 1808 off Jamaica. During her brief career she captured two armed vessels and two merchantmen on the Jamaica station. She was named after Meleager, who could have been a Macedonian officer of distinction in the service of Alexander the Great, or a Meleager a character from Greek mythology. ==Active service== In November 1806 ''Meleager'' was commissioned under Captain John Broughton for the North Sea.〔Winfield (2008), p.158.〕 In mid-1807 ''Meleager'' accompanied HMS ''Shannon'' above 80 degrees latitude in a mission to protect the Greenland whaling fleet. They found neither whalers nor threats and so on 23 August they were back in Leith Roads, seeking replenishment, having spent three months above the Arctic Circle. They then sailed for the Shetland Islands where they cruised for about another month.〔Ralfe (1828), pp.275-6.〕〔Map of the North Polar Regions, published by Norie (John) in London in 1818〕 ''Meleager'', under Captain J. Broughton, was in company with , and when they captured the ''Fischia'' on 14 April 1807. Then on 5 September 1807, ''Meleager'' captured the ''Jonge Lars''. On 16 November 1807 ''Meleager'' sailed with a convoy to the West Indies.〔 On 8 February 1808, ''Meleager'' was off Santiago de Cuba when she sent her boats, with 41 men, to capture the French felucca-rigged privateer ''Renard''. She was armed with one long 6-pounder gun and many muskets, and had a crew of 47 men. The boat party took her without loss even though she was perfectly prepared and expecting to be attacked by the boats, given that ''Meleager'' had chased her. At the approach of the boats, 18 men jumped overboard. ''Renard'' had been cruising for 27 days but had not taken anything. Eleven days later, ''Meleager'' captured the ''Antelope'', a Spanish schooner Letter of Marque. ''Antelope'' was pierced for 14 guns but only carried five, an 18-pounder midships and four 6-pounders; the 6-pounders she threw overboard during the chase. She had a crew of 62 men and was sailing from Cadiz to Vera Cruz with a cargo of dry goods, brandy and wine.〔 In early 1808 ''Meleager'' detained the American schooner ''Meteor'' between the Cuban cities of Trinidad and Santiago, on the pretext that she was going to violate the British embargo. A judge in Jamaica ordered ''Meteor'' released, but not before her owner, Richard Raynal Keene, had to pay $2000 to cover his and Broughton's costs. The detainment led to further pecuniary misfortunes for Keene.〔Keene (1824), pp.9-10.〕 In April 1808 Captain Frederick Warren replaced Brougton.〔 The French privateer ''Plutus'' on 4 July 1808 captured the ''Commerce'', which had been sailing from the Halifax to Jamaica. ''Meleager'' recaptured ''Commerce'' three days later and sent her into Jamaica.〔''Lloyd's List'',()] - accessed 15 December 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 Meleager (1806)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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