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} |} When and captured the American privateer ''Rapid'' in 1812, the Royal Navy took her into service as the 14-gun gun-brig HMS ''Nova Scotia''. She was renamed HMS ''Ferret'' in 1813 and sold in 1820. ==Privateer ''Rapid''== ''Rapid'', of Portland, Maine, had two commanders, Captain W. Crabtree and Captain J. Weeks, during her career as a privateer. ''Rapid'' captured one ship, the ''Experience'', and two brigs. The ''Experience''s cargo was valued at US$250,000.〔Because several vessels shared names, and descriptions were not precise, sources are contradictory or ambiguous. The ''Experience'' may actually have been captured by the ''Rapid'' of Charleston, as Coggeshall (1856, p.230) reports that she was sent into Savannah.〕 The owners of one brig ransomed her and ''Rapid'' sent the other, the ''St. Andrews'', of eight guns and sailing in ballast, into Portland.〔Maclay (1900), p.219.〕 Another report has ''Rapid'' capturing a barque ''St Andrews'', of eight guns, that she sent into Portland.〔Coggeshall (1855), p.58.〕 The ransomed vessel may have been the schooner ''Mary'', of St Thomas, which ''Rapid'' ransomed as ''Rapid'' could not spare the men for a prize crew.〔Coggeshall (1855), p.96-7.〕 ''Rapid'' apparently also captured the brig ''Pursuit'', sailing from Poole to St. Andrews and the brig ''Tay'', sailing from Dundee for Pictou, New Brunswick. ''Rapid'' sent both into Portland.〔Coggeshall (1855), p.45.〕 Lastly, ''Rapid'' captured and burnt a British New Providence privateer, the ''Searcher'', of one gun and twenty men.〔Coggeshall (1855), p.95.〕 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 Nova Scotia (1812)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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