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HMS ''Port d'Espagne'' was a 14-gun vessel, variously described as a sloop, gun-brig or schooner, built in 1806 in Trinidad, whose citizens presented her to the crown. She captured several small Spanish privateers and participated in a major campaign before she was sold in 1811. ==Career== Lieutenant James Pattison Stewart was appointed acting commander of ''Port d'Espagne'' on the Trinidad station on 15 April 1806.〔Marshall (1829), Supplement, Part 3, p.31.〕 On 27 February 1807 ''Port d'Espagne'' and the brig captured the brig ''Altrevido'', Nichola Val Pardo, master. The schooner shared by agreement in the prize money due ''Express''. Three months later, on 6 June, 25 men from ''Port d'Espagne'', under the command of Lieutenant Hall, succeeded in capturing the Spanish privateer schooner ''Mercedes'' in the Gulf of Paria. ''Mercedes'' was armed with two guns and two swivel guns, and had a crew of 30 men. Hall used a captured Spanish schooner disguised as a neutral vessel to get close to the ''Mercedes''. The British came alongside, under fire, and captured the ''Mercedes'' after a brief fight. British casualties were two men wounded; Spanish casualties were two killed, one drowned, and three wounded. On 18 August Stewart and ''Port d'Espagne'' succeeded in capturing the Spanish privateer schooner ''Maria'' after a six-hour chase. She was armed with one long 18-pounder gun, had a crew of 74 men, was provisioned for a three-month cruise, and had left Margarita intending to cruise windward of Barbados. Stewart was particularly pleased to capture ''Maria'' as she was fast sailer in the Windward Islands and although on this cruise she had not made any captures, her captain had 14 years of successes in other privateers. Two days later, ''Ballahoo's'' boats, with the assistance of the ''Maria'', destroyed a small privateer in the Bay of San Juan. ''Port d'Espagne'' and ''Ballahoo'' captured another small privateer, the ''Rosario'', on 12 September in the same bay. The ''Rosario'' also was armed with one gun, and had a crew of 34, all of whom escaped on shore.〔〔Norie (1842), p.259.〕 Prize and head money for ''Mercede'', ''Rosario'', and the unnamed privateer were paid some 21 years later. Lastly, ''Port d'Espagna'' chased a privateer out of the Gulf of Paria and into the arms of the brig ,〔 which captured the Spaniard on 17 October. The Spanish privateer, of two guns, was the ''Nuestra Senora del Carmen''.〔Winfield (2008), p.341.〕 In late 1808 Stewart transferred to ''Snap'', which he commissioned on 13 November. His replacement on ''Port d'Espagne'' was Lieutenant David Kennedy, of .〔''Naval Chronicle'', Vol. 21, p.174.〕 ''Port d'Espagne'' participated in the British capture of the French and Dutch West Indies, including the capture of Martinique in February 1809. In 1847 the Admiralty authorized the issue of the Naval General Service Medal with the clasp "Martinique" to all remaining surviving claimants of that campaign. Lieutenant Colin Campbell was appointed to the command of ''Port d'Espagne'' on 22 September 1809.〔O'Byrne (1849), Vol. 1, p.162.〕 His replacement, by exchange, was Lieutenant Donald Capmpbell, who assumed command on 29 March 1810, and left on 22 September.〔O'Byrne (1849), Vol. 1, p.163.〕 On 21 October 1810, Lieutenant George Guy Burton became acting captain (''pro tem'') of ''Port d'Espagne''.〔O'Byrne (1849), Vol. 1, p.152.〕 Commander James Black was promoted to ''Port d'Espagne'' with a commission dated 8 September 1810.〔Marshall (1829), Supplement, Part 3, p.127.〕 It is not clear when he actually took command. 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 Port d'Espagne (1806)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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