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} |} HMS ''Snapper'' was a Royal Navy ''Ballahoo''-class schooner of four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. The prime contractor for the vessel was Goodrich & Co., in Bermuda, and she was launched in 1804.〔Winfield (2008), p.359.〕 She cruised for some seven years, sharing in several captures of merchant vessels and taking some herself, before a French privateer captured her. ==Service== In May 1804 she was commissioned under Lieutenant George Honey at Jamaica, and then on the Halifax station. In October 1806 she sailed in the Channel under Lieutenant William B. Champion.〔 Then in May 1807 he sailed her to the Mediterranean. On 13 April 1808 Sub-Lieutenant James Young underwent a court martial aboard ''Salvador del Mundo'' at Plymouth. One charge was conduct unbecoming an officer. Apparently he had smoked in the galley with the crew and "permitted liberties derogatory to the character of an officer". A second charge was that he had been absent without leave during a gale and had returned to the vessel intoxicated. The court martial severely reprimanded him.〔''The Naval Chronicle'', Vol. 19, p.347.〕 On 11 October the two schooners ''Snapper'' and ''Nonpareil'' were in company when ''Nonpareil'' captured the merchant schooner ''Belle Coquette''. In 1809 she was under Lieutenant William Jenkins.〔 On 9 July ''Snapper'' was in company with the second rate ''Dreadnought'', ''Tonnant'', ''Gibraltar'' and ''Minerva'' when they captured the ''Goede Hoop''. On 2 August the same squadron captured the ''Carl Ludwig''. On 9 November ''Snapper'' was in sight of ''Dreadnought'', ''Gibraltar'', ''Christian VII'', ''Milford'', ''Naiad'', ''Unicorn'', and the hired armed cutters ''Nimrod'' and ''Adrian'' when ''Snapper'' captured the French brig ''Modeste''. ''Snapper'' was also in company with ''Christian VII'', ''Armide'' and ''Conflict'' when they captured the chasse maree ''Felicitée'' on 10 January 1810 and ''Glorieuse'' ten days later. On 16 February 1810 ''Snapper'' and ''Defiance'' were in company with ''Valiant'' when ''Valiant'' captured the chasse marees ''Heureux'' and ''Louisa''. Next, on 2 June ''Unicorn'' was in sight of ''Valiant'' and the schooners ''Snapper'' and ''Arrow'' when ''Unicorn'' captured the chasse maree ''Marie Josef''.〔 On 7 September 1810 ''Snapper'' spotted a ship among the rocks on the west side of Ushant. She notified the ''Dreadnought'', which attempted a cutting out expedition. The British succeeded in taking the Spanish merchant brig, the ''Maria-Antonia'', which had been taken by a French privateer. However, the success was bought at a cost of six dead, 31 wounded and six missing, as well as two ship’s boats, as a result of an ambush by a large party of French troops with two field guns on a cliff overlooking the anchorage.〔''Naval Chronicle'', (Jul-Dec 1810), Vol. 24, pp.250-1.〕〔James (1837), Vol. V, p.236.〕 Five days later, on 12 September, ''Snapper'' was in company with a squadron under the command of Rear Admiral Sir H.B. Neal when she captured the merchant vessel ''Sophie''. ''Sophie'' (or ''Sophia''), a galiot with a cargo of timber, reached Plymouth a few days later.〔''Lloyd's List'',() - accessed 27 November 2013.〕 The vessels sharing in the prize were ''Caledonia'', ''Valiant'', ''Piercer'', , and the hired armed cutter ''Nimrod''. Then, on 28 September, ''Snapper'' captured the ''Aventura'' and the ''San Nichola''. 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 Snapper (1805)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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