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HMS ''Whiting'' was a Royal Navy ''Ballahoo''-class schooner (a type of vessel often described as a Bermuda sloop) 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 1805.〔Winfield (2008), p.359.〕 She was a participant at the Battle of Basque Roads but was captured by a French privateer at the beginning of the War of 1812 after having been taken and released by the Americans in the first naval action of the war. ==Napoleonic Wars== In 1805 ''Whiting'' was under the command of Lieutenant John Orkney at Halifax on her way to Portsmouth for completion, which took place between 26 April and 19 May 1806.〔 Before that, however, at end-September she captured and sent into Bermuda an American vessel from Bordeaux carrying brandy and wine.〔''Lloyd's List'',() - accessed 27 November 2013.〕 ''Whiting'' was commissioned in June 1806 under Lieutenant George Roach for the North Sea.〔 However, already on 18 June ''Whiting'', , and the cutter ''John Bull'' arrived at Madeira. They were to join up with a squadron under Sir John Borlase Warren, but the squadron left without them.〔''Lloyd's List'',() - accessed 27 November 2013.〕 Even so, ''Whiting'' was still or again under the command of Orkney when on 29 November she captured the Spanish lugger ''Felicided''. Orkney had also destroyed another vessel after transferring a small quantity of hides to the ''Felicidad''. On 7 September 1807 ''Whiting'' was part of the fleet at the Battle of Copenhagen. In January 1808 Lieutenant Henry Wildey assumed command. On 30 June ''Whiting'' was in attendance when her sister ship ''Capelin'' hit the Parquette Rock off Brest, France and sank.〔Gossett (1986), p.65.〕 At the beginning of March 1809 ''Whiting'' joined the fleet assembling for an attack on the French fleet in the Basque Roads. William Congreve, who had arrived with a transport, fitted ''Whiting'' and the two the hired armed cutters ''Nimrod'' and ''King George'' with rockets. On 11 April the three vessels took up a position near the Boyart (see Fort Boyard) Shoal while fireships made a night attack on the French ships. The next day all three, together with a number of other vessels, opened fire upon the French ships ''Océan'', ''Régulus'', and the frigate ''Indienne'', as those ships lay aground. The first two eventually escaped, and the last was one of four eventually destroyed, though by her own crew some days later to avoid capture.〔James (1837), Vol. 5, pp.103-122.〕 In 1847 the Admiralty authorized the issuance of the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Basque Roads 1809" to all surviving British participants in the battle. On 13 April ''Whiting'' sailed for Portugal. For the next few years she sailed in the Channel, to the west, and to the coast of Spain going as far as Cadiz and Gibraltar. Wildey was promoted to Commander on 3 May 1810. ''Whiting'' sent the ''Mountaineer'', Dow, master, into Plymouth, where she arrived on 6 July 1811. ''Mountaineer'' had been sailing from London to Honduras when she ran into ''Whiting'' off Dungeness, carrying away her main mast, and for and mizzen topmast.〔''Lloyd's List'',() - accessed 27 November 2013.〕 On 20 December 1811 ''Whiting'' left Plymouth for Padstow, to assist the gun brig ''Bloodhound'', which had run on shore near there. In 1812 Lieutenant Lewis Maxey assumed command of ''Whiting''. On 1 May he sailed for the Americas. 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 Whiting (1805)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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