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Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Racoon'', after the raccoon: * was a 14-gun brig-sloop. In 1782 she was under the command of Edmund Nagle. The French frigates ''Aigle'' and ''Gloire'' captured her off the Delaware River in September 1782. The very next day a small British squadron, led by Captain G.K. Elphinston in , chased the three vessels up the river. The British were able to capture ''Aigle'', and with her all of ''Racoon''s crew. ''Racoon'' herself escaped and was last listed at Rochefort in 1785.〔Demerliac (1996), p.81, #530.〕 * was a 16-gun brig-sloop launched in 1795 and broken up in 1806. * was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1808. She was used as a convict ship from 1819 and was sold in 1838. * was a wood screw sloop launched in 1857 and broken up in 1877. * was a torpedo cruiser launched in 1887 and sold in 1905. * was a ''Beagle''-class destroyer launched in 1910 and wrecked in 1918. ==See also== *HMCS Raccoon was the former civilian yacht ''Halonia'' before being commissioned into the RCN in 1940. She was sunk by in 1942. 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 Racoon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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