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} |} HMS ''Procris'' was a ''Cruizer''-class brig-sloop launched in 1807. She served at the second battle of Copenhagen. She then went out to the East Indies where she spent the rest of her active service, including participating in the 1811 invasion of Java. She returned to Britain in 1814 and was sold the next year. ==Career== Commander Francis Beauman commissioned ''Procris'' in March 1807 for service in the North Sea.〔 She is listed among the vessels qualifying for prize money arising out of the battle of Copenhagen. On the way, ''Procris'' and detained the Danish ship ''Neptunus'' on 30 August. Commander James M. Gordon replaced Beauman in October. He then sailed ''Procris'' for the East Indies on 18 December 1807. In February 1808 Commander Robert Maunsell replaced Beauman.〔 In the run-up to the British invasion of Java, on 14 July 1809 ''Procris'' encountered and destroyed the Dutch privateer ''Wagster''. ''Wagster'', a brig belonging to the Dutch East India Company, was armed with eight guns and four swivel guns, and had a crew of 86 men. The encounter took place off Batavia. Then on 30 July ''Procris'' anchored at the mouth of Indramayo, following the orders of Captain George Sayer of the frigate . At daylight Maunsell discovered six Dutch gun-boats in the river, each armed with a brass 32-pounder carronade forward, and a long 18-pounder aft, and carrying a crew of 60 men. They were protecting a convoy of 40 to 50 proas. As ''Procris'' moved towards them she quickly ran into shallower water and had to anchor at a range that left her cannon fire ineffective. Maunsell persisted in his attack using ''Procris''s boats, as well as two flat boats that had accompanied him, each carrying an officer and 20 men from the 14th and 89th Regiments of Foot. During the British attack one of the Dutch gunboats blew up. The British captured the other five ''seriatim'', all with a loss of only 11 men wounded, albeit some dangerously or badly, despite the heavy fire from the gunboats' cannons and small arms. During the attack the proas escaped up the river. (詳細はLieutenant Walter Forman became acting commander of ''Procris'' in late 1811.〔 She was under his command in March 1812 when a British squadron, consisting of , , and ''Procris'', as well as the Honourable East India Company's (HEIC) warships ''Mercury'' and ''Teignnmouth'', its gunboats ''Wellington'' and ''Young Barracouta'', as well as its transports ''Sandany'', ''Minerva'', ''Matilda'', and ''Mary Ann'', sailed from Batavia on a punitive expedition to Palembang, on Sumatra, after the Sultan there massacred Dutch and Malays at the Dutch factory there earlier in the month. The British brought with them detachments from the 59th and 89th Regiments of Foot, the Madras horse artillery and hussars (dismounted), Bengal artillery, two battalions of sepoys, and an Ambonese contingent. , under the command of Captain James Bowen, joined up with the fleet later, with Bowen taking command of the fleet as senior naval office. When Bowen discovered that frigates could not cross the bar before the river on which Palembang sits, Bowen transferred his command to ''Procris''. Between 18 and 26 April, she, together with ''Teignmouth'', ''Wellington'' and and the larger warships' boats proceeded 60 miles upriver. On the way, they captured undefended shore batteries containing 101 guns, and captured the Sultan's palace, which surrendered without a fight though 104 guns protected it.〔Marshall (1832), Vol. 3, Part 2, p.421.〕 Foreman served about five months aboard ''Procris'' before transferring to to assume the post of first lieutenant.〔 In February 1812 Lieutenant Nathaniel Norton was appointed to command of ''Procris'', replacing Forman.〔 As Forman was still commanding her in the expedition to Palambang, Norton must have taken actual command in late April or after. ''Procris'' joined ''Phoenix'', ''Barracouta'', and a detachment of 100 men from the 48th Highlanders in a punitive expedition against the Sultanate of Sambas, along the Sambas River in western Borneo. ''Barracouta'' was unable to force the river defenses and the expedition was forced to retreat after she suffered some casualties. Bowen died shortly thereafter of fever.〔Low (1877), 256.〕 The HEIC cruiser ''Aurora'' and some gunboats then maintained a blockade until a second punitive expedition arrived in June 1813. The Royal Navy contingent in the second punitive expedition consisted of ''Leda'', , ''Malacca'', , , and ''Procris'', with Captain Sayer of ''Leda'' as the senior naval officer.〔 The HEIC contributed the cruisers ''Malabar'', ''Teignmouth'', and ''Aurora'', seven gunboats, the transport ''Troubridge'', and the East Indiaman ''Princess Charlotte of Wales''. The army contingent consisted of the 14th Regiment of Foot, a company each from the Bengal artillery and the HEIC's European Regiment, and the 3rd Bengal Volunteer Battalion. Eventually the British vessels, except the frigates, were able to cross bar in front of the river and move towards the town of Sambas. Capturing two forts yielded over 70 brass and iron guns of mixed calibers, but the town of itself yielded little booty. The expedition was able to recapture the Portuguese brig ''Coromandel'', which the pirates had captured the year before. British casualties from combat were relatively low, but casualties from fever and disease were high.〔Low (1815), pp.256-61.〕 In April 1813 Commander Thomas Cusson replaced Norton.〔 Cusson sailed ''Procris'' back to Britain, arriving in August 1814. 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 Procris (1806)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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