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} |} HMS ''Nightingale'' was a 16-gun brig-sloop of the ''Seagull'' class of the British Royal Navy, launched in July 1805. She served during the Napoleonic Wars, primarily in the North Sea, where she captured a number of merchant vessels. The Navy sold her in 1815. ==Career== In August 1805 Commander William Wilkinson commissioned ''Nightingale'' for the North Sea.〔 ''Nightingale'' was in company with and on 6 April when ''Texel'' captured the ''Einigheid''. That same day the same three British ships, together with the hired armed vessels ''Norfolk'' and ''Chapman'', captured the ''Jonge Ebeling'', ''Freundschaft'', and ''Morgenstern''. Six days later ''Nightingale'' captured the Prussian ship ''Frou Gesiner''.〔 The capture of the ''Twee Gebroders'' followed on 26 April. Then ''Nightingale'' captured the Prussian ships ''Jonge Gerrite'', and ''De Drie Gebroeders'' on 23 May. On 24 January 1807, ''Nightingale'' arrived at Edinburgh from Tunningen with news of a French defeat north of Warsaw.〔''The Lady's Magazine: Or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, Appropriated Solely to Their Use and Amusement'' (February 1807), Vol. 38, p.108.〕 In the autumn ''Nightingale'' was present at the second battle of Copenhagen. On 20 October she received orders to accompany a small squadron that would escort the transport ships back to Yarmouth.〔Parliament (1808), p.72.〕 She carried Captain the Honourable Charles Paget, of . He had taken up Admiral Gambier's offer to let him return to Britain with the duplicate despatches announcing Denmark's capitulation.〔Paget & Paget (1896), Vol. 2, pp.352-3.〕 On 25 July 1809, ''Nightingale'' captured the Danish vessel ''Emanuel''.〔 That same day she captured ''Cutter No 16''.〔 Then on 16 August she captured the Danish vessel ''Transport No 52''. ( was in company at the capture of ''Transport No. 52''.) Lastly, on 12 October, she captured the ''Helena Maria''. April 1810 saw ''Nightingale'' capture five vessesl: the ''Martini Jacobi'', C. Stysring, master (15 April), ''Godes Fisne'', A. Brede, master (18 April), ''Amicitia'', Paul Paulson, master, (17 April), ''Magneten'', H. Kilrub, master, (21 April), and a sloop, No. 60, name unknown (21 April. ''Nightingale'' was also in sight on 17 April when captured the ''Carolus'', L.J. Kramer, master, and the ''Enighied'', N. Frius, master. That same day ''Nightingale'' was in company with when they captured the ''Amicitia'', Paul Poulson, master. Commander John Eveleigh replaced Wilkinson in November 1810.〔 ''Nightingale'' and were in company on 12 April 1811 when they captured the ''Caroline'' and the ''Berentine''. Commander Christopher Nixon replaced Eveleigh in early 1812. and ''Nightingale'', under Nixon's command, were in company when they captured the vessels ''Liebe'' (27 February 1812), ''Maria Dorothea'' (7 March), ''Anna Serina'' (9 March) and ''Bodel Maria'' (24 March). Then on 19 May ''Rifleman'' and ''Nightingale'' were again in company when they captured the ''Palmtract''. On 29 January 1813, ''Nightingale'' captured the American ship ''Calumet'', of 187 tons bm, which had been carrying a cargo of tobacco from Boston to Marstrand. ''Nightingale'' sent her into Leith. Then on 9 March 1813, ''Nightingale'' was in company with when they captured the Danish sloop ''Enigheiden''. On 11 September ''Nightingale'' was at Leith receiving a 4inch false keel.〔 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 Nightingale (1805)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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