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HMS ''Norwich'' was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford in 1693.〔 She was rebuilt according to the 1706 Establishment at Chatham Dockyard, relaunching on 20 May 1718. In 1744 she was reduced to a fifth rate and renamed HMS ''Enterprise''.〔 == Engagements== HMS ''Norwich'' took part in the destruction of the fortress of San Lorenzo el Real Chagres (22-24 March 1740), in Panama, as part of a squadron commanded by Vice-Admiral Edward Vernon during the War of Jenkins' Ear. At 3 pm on 22 March 1740, the English squadron, composed of the ships ''Strafford'', ''Norwich'', ''Falmouth'' and ''Princess Louisa'', the frigate , the bomb vessels , and , the fireships and , and transports ''Goodly'' and ''Pompey'', under Vernon's command, began to bombard the Spanish fortress. Given the overwhelming superiority of the English forces, Captain Don Juan Carlos Gutiérrez Cevallos surrendered the fort on 24 March, after resisting for two days. HMS ''Enterprise'' patrolled the Caribbean until the end of the War of the Spanish Succession in 1748, when she was laid up in ordinary. ''Enterprise'' was recommissioned in 1756 at the outbreak of the Seven Years' War, again for service in the West Indies and North America and resumed her duties as Atlantic convoy escort. In 1762 she was present at the siege and capture of Havana, Cuba, an action involving nearly 60 warships and transports enough for more than 16,000 troops. ''Enterprise'' was decommissioned in January 1764 and was broken up in 1771 at Sheerness.〔 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 Norwich (1693)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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