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HMS ''Renard'' was a 12-gun schooner, previously the French navy schooner ''Renard''. captured her in 1803 off Corsica and the Royal Navy took her into service under her existing name. The already being an (a sloop), on the West Indies station, at some point between 1804 and 1807 the schooner's name was changed to HMS ''Crafty''. During her brief service ''Renard''/''Crafty'' captured several merchantmen and a small armed vessel. In 1807 three Spanish privateers captured her. ==French career== ''Renard'' was originally a lugger built and launched at Dieppe in June 1793. The French Navy purchased her on the ways in April 1793. Under the command of ''enseigne de vaisseu non entretenu'' Troquet, in October the lugger ''Renard'' sailed from Havre to (France|Brest )]. From 27 January 1794 to the end of the year ''Renard'' was under the command of ''enseigne de vaisseu non entretenu'' Catelain. She cruised, carried out liaison missions, and escorted convoys between la Hougue and Boulogne-sur-Mer. The next year, first under Catelain, and then ''lieutenenat de vaisseu'' Bigot ''Renard protected the herring fisheries off Havre, escorted convoys, and inspected facilities between Cherbourg and Boulogne-sur-Mer. On 21 November 1800, ''Renard'' was still under Constantin's command when she fought a British cutter, apparently inconclusively, in the roads of the Île-d'Aix. She then returned to Rochefort for a week. In November 1803, ''Renard'', under the command of ''lieutenant de vaisseau'' Jacques Constantin, was escorting a transport carrying troops from Calvi. French records attribute the capture to and ,〔''Fonds Marine, 1790-1804'', p.312.〕 give a date of 25 November for the capture, and report that ''Renard'' surrendered after having been fired on over a period of hours by a ship and ''Cameleon''.〔Troude (1867), Vol. 3, p.298.〕 ''Renard'' was a schooner when the Royal Navy captured her. ==Capture== British records differ. On 16 November ''Cameleon'' was part of Nelson's squadron off Corsica. She was lying nearly becalmed off Cap Corse, when her captain sighted an armed schooner escorting a transport. He deployed the boats, which succeeded in capturing the French naval schooner ''Renard'', of 12 guns.〔Marshall (1827), Supplement, Part 1, pp.83-86.〕 went in chase of the transport, a brig, and captured her.〔 In his dispatches, Nelson simply attributed the capture to his squadron, though ''Victory''s log in the Admiralty records ''Cameleon'' and ''Stately'' as the captors. Nelson's letter described ''Renard'' as being armed with twelve 4-pounder guns and six swivel guns, and carrying a crew of 80 men. The transport brig was the ''Titus'', and she was taking 96 troops to Toulon. ''Stately'' then escorted both prizes to Malta.〔Nelson (1845), p.287.〕 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 Renard (1803)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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