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HMS ''Nonsuch'' was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 17 December 1774 at Plymouth.〔 She was broken up in 1802. ==Career== ''Nonsuch'' was commissioned in August 1775 as a guardship at Plymouth. She was fitted for the in December 1776, but sailed for North America on 23 March 1777.〔 ;American War of Independence On 7 July 1780 ''Nonsuch'', under the command of Sir James Wallace, captured the brig-rigged cutter ''Hussard'' of Saint Malo. ''Hussard'' was armed with eighteen 6-pounder guns.〔Demerliac (1996), p.88, #581.〕 The Royal Navy took her into service as . On 14 July ''Nonsuch'' captured the 26-gun frigate ''Belle Poule'' off the Loire. The Royal Navy took ''Belle Poule'' into service under her existing name. In April 1781, ''Nonsuch'' was part of Admiral George Darby's relief fleet during the Great Siege of Gibraltar. On 14 May 1781, on the homeward voyage, while scouting ahead, ''Nonsuch'' chased and brought to action the French 74-gun ''Actif'', hoping to detain her until some others of the fleet came up. However, ''Actif'' was able to repulse ''Nonsuch'', causing her to suffer 26 men killed and 64 wounded, and continued on to Brest. ''Nonsuch'' fought at the Battle of the Saintes (9 April—12 April 1782). Late in 1782 ''Nonsuch'' and escorted a fleet from Georgia "with the principal inhabitants, their Negroes, and their Effects" to Jamaica.〔''Lloyd's List'', no. 1415,() - accessed 17 June 2014.〕 ;Floating battery Between February and May 1794 ''Nonsuch'' was at Chatham, being cut down and fitted as a floating battery. Captain Bill Douglas commissioned her in March. In June she was at Jersey under Captain Philippe d'Auvergne, Prince of Bouillon, and Senior Officer of Gunboats, in charge of a small flotilla of useless gunvessels, including , , , , and . (The Navy disposed of most of them within a year or so.) ''Nonsuch'' was paid off in December. In February 1795 Captain William Mitchell recommissioned her in the Humber at Hull as a floating battery. Mitchell's successor, in August, was Captain Henry Blackwood. ''Nonsuch''s logs state she arrived in the Humber at the end of June 1795, having sailed up from Chatham under Blackwood's command. By 2 July she was in a permanent mooring at Hull Roads.〔ADM 52/3258 National Archives (United Kingdom): Captain and Sailing Master's logs.〕 In April 1796 Captain Robert Dudley Oliver replaced Blackwood, only to be replaced in October 1797 by Captain Isaac Woolley, who commanded her until 1799. 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 Nonsuch (1774)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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