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} |} HMS ''Musquito'' was a Royal Navy ''Cruizer''-class brig-sloop built by John Preston at Great Yarmouth and launched in 1804.〔Winfield (2008), p.291.〕 She was commissioned in October 1804 under Commander Samuel Jackson.〔 She served in the North Sea and the Baltic, and Jackson supervised the first successful rocket attack in Europe at Boulogne in 1806. After the war she served off Africa and captured some slavers. She was broken up in 1822, having been laid up since 1818. ==North Sea and Baltic== ''Musquito'' was 13 miles off Scarborough on 12 April 1805 when Jackson saw two ships firing their guns at a third. Jackson caught up with the quarry, which turned out to be a sloop from Guernsey carrying contraband goods.〔 Her captain informed Jackson his pursuers were French privateers. Jackson sailed in pursuit and captured one of the privateers at midday and the other early the following morning. The privateers were the Dutch-built doggers ''Orestes'' and ''Pylades''. Each was armed with a 24-pounder carronade and six swivels and had a crew of 33 men.〔 They had been at sea for three weeks, flying false Prussian colours. Their plan had been to attack merchant shipping off Scotland but bad weather had foiled them.〔 ''Musquito'' sent both into Yarmouth.〔''Lloyd's List'', no. 4217,() - accessed 16 May 2014.〕〔''Lloyd's List'', no. 4218,() - accessed 16 May 2014.〕 Later that year ''Musquito'' escorted transports carrying some 5,000 troops to Lord Cathcart's army in Hanover. By trusting his judgment over that of the pilots he was ordered to use, Jackson saved the convoy from grounding on the Haak Sand off Texel, although one transport did ground with the result that the Dutch captured her and the 250 men of the Fifth Regiment of Foot she was carrying.〔Marshall (1827), Su[plement, Part 1, pp.275-6.〕 Later, ''Musquito'' drove five French armed schooners ashore on the Calais-Boulogne coast.〔 On 27 March 1806, ''Musquito'' was with ''Ariadne'' and the gun-brig ''Monkey'' when they captured the ''Vrow Cornelia'', R.R. Cruzenga, Master. On 7 April ''Musquito'', ''Monkey'', ''Bold'' and ''Urgent'' captured the ''Bradford''. Two days later, ''Musquito'' and ''Ariadne'', and the gun-brigs ''Blazer'', ''Bold'' and ''Furious'' captured the ''Anna Margaretha'', Klinkammer, Master.〔 On 14 April ''Musquito'', ''Ariadne'', ''Monkey'' and ''Blazer'' captured the merchant vessel ''Elizabeth Anna''. Then on 5 June ''Musquito'' was among the vessels that shared in the capture of the ''Prospere'', J.G. Huret, Master. Almost two months later, on 28 July, many of the same vessels shared in the capture of the ''Jonge Jacob''. During Commodore Edward Owen’s rocket attack on the French flotilla at Boulogne in October 1806, Jackson directed the boats firing 32 pound (14.5 kg) Congreve rockets.〔 As night drew in on the Channel, 24 cutters fitted with rocket frames formed a line and fired some 400 rockets at Boulogne. The barrage took only 30 minutes. Apparently the attack set a number of fires but otherwise had limited effect. Still, the effect was enough to lead the British to employ rockets on a number of further occasions.〔Werrett (2009)〕 This was the first successful use of rocket artillery in Europe. An earlier attack on Boulogne in November 1805 had been a complete failure with the rockets not even reaching the town.〔 ''Musquito'' joined the expedition to Copenhagen in October 1806 where she was stationed in the Belt to prevent supplies reaching Zealand.〔 In June 1807 ''Mosquito'' captured the ''Jeune Adolphe'', M. Combet, Master. ''Musquito'' shared in the prize money for the capture of Copenhagen on 7 September 1807. ''Musquito'' was recommissioned in October 1807 under Commander William Goate for the North Sea. She next appears in the records in early 1809. In late 1808 or early 1809, ''Musquito'' retrieved and brought into Heligoland the ''George'', Maddock,master, which had been sailing from London to Heligoland when she ran ashore nearly filled with water. Her crew had deserted her, and her cargo was much damaged.〔''Lloyd's List'', no.4329,[http://www.1812privateers.org/LLOYDS/1809/02-21-1809.jpg], - accessed 16 May 2014.〕 She captured the Danish privateer cutter ''Sol Fulgen'' of six guns and 24 men off Heligoland on 25 May 1809. ''Musquito'' may have been in command of the gun-vessel ''Patriot'' because on 30 May Lieutenant E.W. Mansel, of ''Patriot'' sent a letter to Goate for onward transmission announcing the capture of the Danish cutter privateer ''Snap''. The capture took place in the River Hever. ''Snap'' was armed with three guns and had a crew of nine men. She was one week out of Tonningen, but had not captured anything. That same month Mansel advised Goate that ''Patriot'' had captured a Dutch gun-vessel of one gun, some swivel guns and 10 men in the Jahde River, a Danish privateer of one gun, six swivels and 25 men, off Langerooz, and with the hired armed vessel ''Alert'', of the destruction of two French privateers and a sloop in the Jahde. On 30 October, ''Musquito'' and captured the ''Fortuna''. 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 Musquito (1804)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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