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HMS ''Pelorus'' was an 18-gun ''Cruizer''-class brig-sloop of the British Royal Navy. She was built in Itchenor, England and launched on 25June 1808. She saw action in the Napoleonic Wars and in the War of 1812. On anti-slavery patrol off West Africa, she captured four slavers and freed some 1350 slaves. She charted parts of Australia and New Zealand and participated in the First Opium War (18391842) before becoming a merchantman and wrecking in 1844 while transporting opium to China. ==Napoleonic Wars== '' Pelorus'' was commissioned in July 1808 under Commander The Honourable James William King, and sailed for the Leeward Islands on 15December.〔 In January 1809 Commander Thomas Huskisson was appointed commander of ''Pelorus'',〔Winfield (2008), p.299.〕 but did not find out until May. Therefore he was not her commander at the capture of Martinique in February. (Some accounts have her under the command of Captain Francis Augustus Collier; however, he was commander of .) Under Huskinson she then took part in enforcing the blockade of Guadeloupe. In 1847 the Admiralty awarded the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Martinique" to any surviving crewmen from that campaign that wished to claim it. On 16October, ''Pelorus'' and discovered a privateer schooner moored under the St Mary battery. Fire from ''Hazard'' and ''Pelorus'' destroyed the battery while boats from both ships boarded the privateer. Her crew had abandoned the vessel but fired from the shore where two field pieces joined them.〔 Unable to move the prize, the British blew her up.〔 The privateer was armed with one long 18-pounder on a pivot carriage and two swivels; the British estimated that she had had a crew of 80-100 men. The action cost the British 15 men dead and wounded, with ''Pelorus'' suffering two dead and six wounded, one mortally.〔 In February 1810 ''Pelorus'' participated in the capture of Guadeloupe. In 1847 the Admiralty awarded the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Guadaloupe" to any surviving crewmen from that campaign that wished to claim them. Later the same year, under Commander Alexander Kennedy, ''Pelorus'' patrolled the Leeward Islands. In May, command transferred to Commander Joshua Rowley.〔 In late December 1811 and early 1812, ''Pelorus'' was cruising off Plymouth. On 22 and 23 December 1811 she captured the ''Marianne'' and the ''Deux Freres''. On 6January 1812, she sent in a French ''chasse maree'' that she had taken. On 5April Rowley sailed her for the Mediterranean.〔 〕 In September 1812, Commander Robert Gambier took command of ''Pelorus''.〔 By 1814, her captain was Commander Robert Stow. On 7 March boats from , , and a third British vessel, destroyed the American privateer ''Mars'', of 15 guns and 70 men, off Sandy Hook. Some accounts name ''Pelorus'' as the third British vessel, but the prize money notices and most other accounts give the name of the third vessel as . Then by September, ''Pelorus'' was under the command of Commander John Gourly. A year later she was paid off at Plymouth where she underwent a Middling Repair before she was laid up.〔 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 Pelorus (1808)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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