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} |} HMS ''Pike'' was a Royal Navy ''Ballahoo''-class schooner of four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. The prime contractor for the vessel was Goodrich & Co., in Bermuda, and she was launched in 1804.〔Winfield (2008), p.359.〕 She captured one 10-gun enemy vessel before being herself captured, and recaptured. ''Pike'' foundered in 1809. ==Service== ''Pike'' was commissioned in Jamaica in June 1804 under Lieutenant John Nichols. Lieutenant Duncan Macdonald replaced him in October. In 1806 Lieutenant C. Spence took command, and then Lieutenant John Otley replaced him in August.〔 On 25 August Rear-Admiral Dacres formed a small squadron under the command of Captain George Le Geyt of the 18-gun ''Stork''. The other three vessels in the squadron were the 14-gun ''Superieure'', the 10 or 12-gun schooner ''Flying Fish'', and ''Pike''. Dacres ordered Le Geyt to bring out or destroy privateers based at Batabano in Cuba.〔 On 30 August the squadron approached the Isle of Pines. There they sighted a Spanish schooner at anchor. Le Geyt reinforced ''Pike'' with a lieutenant and eight seamen and sent her to engage the Spanish vessel. After a short chase and two broadsides from ''Pike''s 12-pounder carronades, the Spaniard surrendered. She turned out to be a ''guarda costa'' of 10 guns, with a crew of 45 men. ''Pike'' took possession of her and took her back to the squadron.〔〔James 1837), Vol. 4, 258-60.〕 Le Geyt then discovered that ''Stork'' drew too much water to permit her to enter the Gulf of Batabanó. He therefore transferred to the other three vessels his boats and men and sent in the cutting-out expedition under the command of Commander Edward Rushworth of ''Superieure''.〔 The landing party consisted of 63 officers and men, none of whom were from ''Pike''. Ten men from ''Flying Fish'' remained to guard the party's boats.〔 The party landed on 2 September and crossed some two miles of marshy ground to storm a fort at Batabano. On their way they had to break through an ambush of enemy soldiers and militia. In the process they killed two and wounded one badly. At the fort they captured six 18-pounder long guns, which they spiked.〔 The party then proceeded to take possession of the vessels in the bay.〔 There is some disagreement as to how many vessels they captured and took as prizes, with the total rising as high as 12. According to Rushworth's letter (an after action report), the prizes included a felucca, pierced for 14 guns but only mounting one 18-pounder, a schooner pierced for 12 guns, a French 4-gun privateer, and three Spanish privateers of one gun each. The party also burnt at least six smaller coasting vessels after having removed their cargoes.〔 Total British casualties amounted to one man badly wounded.〔 On 2 September ''Flying Fish'', ''Stork'', ''Superieure'', and ''Pike'' destroyed two privateers, names unknown, on the Jamaica station. One was a felucca of five guns.〔Norie (1842), p.501.〕 Between 1 January 1806 and 1 January 1807, ''Pike'', in company with ''Shark'', ''Superieure'' and ''Flying Fish'' captured a French felucca of one gun. Whether or not it was one of the above vessels is unclear. 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 Pike (1804)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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