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} |} HMS ''Spencer'' was a 16-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, formerly the civilian ''Sir Charles Grey''. The Admiralty purchased her in 1795, after having hired her in 1793-94, and renamed her HMS ''Lilly'' in 1800. The French privateer ''Dame Ambert'' captured her in 1804 and ''Lilly'' became the French privateer ''Général Ernouf''. She blew up in 1805 while in an engagement with . ==Origins== On 11 August 1795 Captain Francis Pender arrived at Bermuda. Shortly thereafter he purchased two vessels, one of which became and the other of which was the ''Sir Charles Grey'', which he renamed ''Spencer''. ''Sir Charles Grey'' had been a privateer and for a while a hired armed vessel,〔 and was named for Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey. Commander Thomas Hurd, of ''Bermuda'', commissioned her, but he had been engaged in hydrographic survey work and Pender replaced him in ''Spencer'' with Lieutenant Andrew F. Evans.〔 〕 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 Spencer (1795)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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