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HMS ''Rippon'' was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 8 August 1812 at Bursledon.〔 ==Career== ;Capture of ''Weser'' On 30 September 1813, the French frigate ''Weser'', under the command of ''captaine de vaisseau'' Cantzlaat, ''Chevalier de L'ordre Imperiale de la Reunion'', sailed from the Texel for the North Sea. There she captured two Swedish ships before a gale on 16 October took away her main and mizzen mast. Two days later , Commander Colin Macdonald, captain, encountered her 60 leagues west of Ushant, making her way towards Brest under jury main and mizzen masts. Rather than engage her and risk being crippled and so unable to follow her given the weather, Macdonald decided to follow her. Fortuitously, on 20 October, , Commander J.J. Gordon Bremer, captain, arrived and Macdonald and Bremer decided to attack ''Weser''. They engaged her for about an hour and a half before they had to withdraw to repair their rigging. At about this time a third British vessel, ''Rippon'', Captain Christopher Cole, came up. Bremer joined Cole and informed him of the situation while ''Scylla'' remained with ''Weser''.〔 The next morning, as ''Rippon'' and ''Royalist'' sailed towards ''Scylla'' to renew their attack, ''Weser'' sailed towards ''Rippon'' and struck, after first firing two broadsides towards ''Scylla''. ''Scylla'' suffered only two men wounded in the entire engagement. ''Royalist'' suffered more heavily, having two men killed and nine wounded. ''Weser'' lost four men killed and 15 wounded.〔 ''Rippon'' took ''Weser''s crew on board as prisoners and towed her into port. The Royal Navy took her into service as HMS ''Weser''.〔 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 Rippon (1812)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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