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} |} HMS ''Tartar'' was a 32-gun fifth-rate ''Narcissus''-class frigate of the Royal Navy, built at Frindsbury and launched in 1801. She captured privateers on the Jamaica station and fought in the Gunboat War and elsewhere in the Baltic before being lost to grounding off Estonia in 1811. ==Jamaica station== Captain James Walker commissioned ''Tartar'' in July 1801. She sailed for Jamaica in October.〔Winfield (2008), p.155.〕 In June 1802 Captain Charles Inglis took command.〔 On 30 August 1802 ''Tartar'' was among the British warships sharing in the capture of the French tartane ''Concezione''. In 1803 Captain John Perkins succeeded Inglis.〔 ''Tartar'' was in Captain John Loring's squadron at the Blockade of Saint-Domingue when captured the 74-gun on 25 July off Saint-Domingue. ''Tartar'' outsailed her larger companions and kept ''Duquesne'' engaged until came up, at which point ''Duquesne'' surrendered.〔James (1837), Vol. 3, p.186.〕〔National Archives, Kew: ADM 51/1447 Captains' logs Tartar 16 April 1802 – 30 April 1804〕 As the British warships and their prize were sailing between the two islands of St. Domingo and Tortudo, near Port-au-Paix, they met up with the French schooner ''Oiseaux''. She was armed with 16 guns and her crew of 60 men was under the command of ''Lieutenant de Vaisseau'' Druault. Loring ordered ''Vanguard'' and ''Tartar'' to escort ''Duquesne'' and ''Oiseau'' to Port Royal.〔 Between 20 November and 4 December 1803 ''Tartar'' was in company with Captain Loring's squadron when the squadron captured the French frigates , , and ''Vertu'', the brig , and the schooner ''Découverte''. All five were taken into British service. ''Surveillante'' had on board at her surrender General Rochambeau the commander of the French forces on Saint-Domingue. On 1 December the squadron detained the ''Hiram'' for a breach of the blockade of Cape Francois. In 1803 and 1804 Perkins escorted Edward Corbet to Haiti. Corbet had been appointed to liaise with Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the new governor general and later first Emperor of Haiti. These missions were often less than successful.〔Wright ''et al''. (2002), p. 311-2.〕 In 1804 ''Tartar'' was on the Jamaica Station under Captain Keith Maxwell, who had received promotion to post-captain on 1 May.〔 Around this time ''Tartar'' grounded in Murray's Roads, Bermuda. The tiny 4-gun schooner came to ''Tartar''s assistance, temporarily salvaging the main deck guns and bower anchor.〔Marshall (1835), Vol. 4, Part 2, pp.315-6.〕 On 31 July ''Tartar'' sighted a schooner. Maxwell set off to prevent the schooner from entering the narrow and intricate channel between the island of Saona and San Domingo where it would be difficult for him to pursue. As ''Tartar'' got closer he saw that the schooner was using her sweeps to aid her.〔 Her behaviour made Maxwell suspect that his quarry was a privateer so he pursued her until neither vessel could progress farther. At that point, Maxwell was unable to get ''Tartar'' into a position from which she could use her broadside.〔 Instead, he sent in a cutting out party in three boats. As the boats set out, their quarry fired a gun, hoisted French colours, and then opened fire on the boats. The schooner was not able to deter the attack and the British captured her with no more casualties than two men wounded. The French lost nine killed and six wounded, as well as three missing, presumed drowned when they tried to swim to shore.〔 Maxwell sent the wounded to San Domingo under flag of truce, but kept the other Frenchmen prisoners, there being no English prisoners available for exchange. The privateer was the ''Hirondelle'', under the command of Captain La Place. She was armed with ten 4-pounder guns and had been out of San Domingo for two days. She had been active during the French Revolutionary Wars and for the past two years also, having frequently escaped pursuit due to her speed. At the end of 1804, Captain Edward Hawker joined ''Tartar'' from and sailed her from Jamaica to the Halifax station. On 9 January 1805 ''Tartar'', in company with ''Surveillante'', captured the Spanish ship ''Batidor.'' On 6 May 1806 ''Tartar'' captured the American brig ''Romulus''. Then on 9 June ''Tartar'' and the 10-gun cutter captured the French navy brig ''Observateur'', of 18 guns and 104 men, which was under the command of Captain Crozier. ''Observateur'' had sailed from Cayenne on 13 May with the brig-of-war ''Argus'', with provisions for a four-month cruise but had not captured anything. The Royal Navy took her into service as HMS ''Observateur''.〔Winfield (2008), p.316.〕 On 23 August ''Tartar'' captured the Charlestown packet. Later in the year Captain Hawker exchanged with Captain Stephen Poyntz of and ''Tartar'' returned to England under reduced masts as a consequence of damage she had sustained in a hurricane.〔Marshall (1925), Vol. 2, Part 2, p.901.〕 ''Tartar'' was paid off in October 1807. Then between October and April 1808 she underwent repairs, which cost £18,700.〔 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 Tartar (1801)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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