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HMS ''Resource'' was a 28-gun ''Enterprise''-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1778 and sold for breaking up in 1816. ==Career== ''Resource'' was first commissioned in July 1778 under the command of Captain Patrick Fotheringham. On 19 April 1781 ''Resource'' recaptured the 20-gun post ship , which the French frigate ''Andromaque'' had captured on 4 September 1780. ''Resource'' had reached Cape Blaise by noon and at 2pm spotted a strange sail. By 4:30 ''Resource'' was close enough that both vessels began to exchange fire. After an hour and a half, the French vessel struck. She turned out to be the ''Unicorn'', and armed with twenty 9-pounder guns and eight 12-pounder carronades. She had a crew of 181 men under the command of ''Chevalier'' de St. Ture. In the engagement, ''Resource'' lost 15 men killed and 30 wounded; ''Unicorn'' lost eight men killed and 30 wounded, four of whom died later. Ten crew members were drowned in October 1799 when the ship's boat foundered in The Downs while returning to ''Resource'' after a journey to the shore. The dead included the captain of marines and the ship's purser.〔Grocott 1997, p.79〕 Because ''Resource'' served in the navy's Egyptian campaign (8 March to 2 September 1801), her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal that the Admiralty authorised in 1850 for all surviving claimants. 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 Resource (1778)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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