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HMS ''Patriot'' was a Dutch schuyt that the Royal Navy captured in 1808 and took into service. She captured several enemy vessels before she was converted to a water vessel in 1813. The Admiralty sold her in 1815.〔Winfield (2008), p. 328.〕 ==Career== In 1809 ''Patriot'' was under the command of Lieutenant E.W. Mansel on the Heligoland station. On 29 May she captured the Danish cutter privateer ''Snap'', in the River Hever. ''Snap'' was armed with three guns and had a crew of nine. She had left Tonningen one week before but had made no captures. That same month Mansel advised Commander William Goate of 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'', destroyed two French privateers and a sloop, also in the Jahde. On 2, 4 and 5 June ''Patriot'' captured a "Danish Blankenaise boat" of unknown name, and two Dutch gunboats, the ''Calais'' and the ''Suapup''. Later in June a landing party from , ''Patriot'', and ''Alert'', under the command of Mansell and Lieutenant M'Dougall of ''Alert'', attacked some French customs officers and soldiers stationed at Ekwarden in the River Jahde. The British drove the French from their posts and captured two customs boats, and one Danish and five French galiots. The British brought out their prizes, together with merchandise that the Danes and French had seized. There were no British casualties. Then Lord George Stuart gave Goate command of a small force consisting of ''Musquito'', the two ''Cherokee''-class brig-sloops ''Briseis'', and ''Ephira'', five gun-brigs, including ''Basilisk'', and ''Patriot'' and ''Alert''. On 7 July they entered the Elbe. There was a battery at Cuxhaven so they anchored out range of its cannons. Next morning at daylight Goate led a landing party but before they could attack the battery its 80-man garrison retreated, abandoning their guns. The British then loaded the battery’s six 24-pounders into vessels lying in the harbor, together with all the shot and military stores they could find and some other small guns. Next, they blew up the fort and seized two French gunboats, each of two guns. Lastly, the landing party handed the town of Cuxhaven back to the civil governor before returning to its vessels.〔 Later, ''Mosquito'', ''Basilisk'' and ''Aimable'' would share in the prize money. A month later, on 10 August, ''Paz'' and ''Patriot'' were in company at Hocksyl. There they captured the Danish privateer ''Blankanaise'', a sloop laden with linen, a lugger in ballast, and sundry goods. Two weeks later, ''Patriot'', ''Paz'', and the gun-vessels ''Censor'' and captured property at Harlinger Zyl, together with a Danish privateer and a mutt in ballast. The next month, on 11 September, , ''Patriot'', ''Paz'' and ''Jahde'' shared in the capture of vessels referred to in the prize-money announcement as ''Young Pincher'', ''Young Paz'', and ''Young Patriot''. On 31 October, ''Patriot'', in company with ''Alert'', captured the ''Dorothea''. At some point Mansel died and Lieutenant William Hutchinson replaced him in command of ''Patriot''. A biographical note reports that in 1810 Hutchinson was in command of a division of armed schuyts operating in the Elbe, Weser, and Ems.〔Marshall (1833), Vol. 4, Part 1, p.198.〕 On 8 September 1810 Hutchinson was in command when ''Patriot'' and captured the "file and brick ships" ''Gute Hoffnung'', ''Vrow Catherina'', and ''Dree Gesusters''. By 1811 ''Patriot'' was at Yarmouth. Hutchinson continued to command her into 1813. 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 Patriot (1808)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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