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} |} The hired armed cutter ''Black Joke'' was a cutter that served the Royal Navy from 12 January 1795 to 19 October 1801. In 1799 she was renamed ''Suworow'', and under that name she captured numerous prizes before she was paid off after the Treaty of Amiens. ==Service as ''Black Joke''== In May 1795, the "lugger" ''Black Joke'', under the command of Lieutenant Richard Clark, was part of Sir Sidney Smith's squadron in the Channel.〔Smith (1848), Vol. 1, p.162.〕 On 24 February 1796, His Majesty's cutter ''Black Joke'' captured the ''Poor Jack''. In 1796, the armed lugger ''Black Joke'', under the command of Lieutenant Boarder, protected the Hull whaling fleet sailing to Lerwick.〔Lubbock (1937), p.141.〕 By some accounts, in 1797 ''Black Joke'' alerted the Fleet to the Dutch entry into the North Sea before the Battle of Camperdown. The majority of accounts attribute the warning to the hired cutter ''Active''. Also in 1797, the lugger ''Black Joke'' recaptured the ''Ceres'' and ''Good Intent''. ''Black Joke'' was in company with the hired armed vessel ''Liberty'' and the Excise cutter ''Lively'' at the time of the recapture of ''Ceres'', and the ''Liberty'' at the time of the recapture of the ''Good Intent''. On 10 March 1798 His Majesty's hired armed lugger ''Black Joke'' was briefly under the command of Lieutenant Mauritius Adolphus Newton de Stark when she captured the fishing vessel ''Saint Petre''. On 26 May ''Black Joke'' and the sloop ''Hound'' captured the brig ''Minerva''. On 27 April 1799, while under the command of Lieutenant James Nicolson (or Nichelson), ''Black Joke'' captured the French chasse-marée ''Rebecca'', of four swivel guns and seven men, just out of Brest having on board a ''capitaine de frégate'' with dispatches for Ireland. The dispatches were a ruse that drew British attention to the Irish coast, when the Brest fleet had sailed to reinforce French forces in Corfu, Malta, and Egypt (see: Bruix' expedition of 1799).〔James (1837), Vol. 2, p.256.〕〔Roche, vol.1, p.327〕 Then on 10 July ''Black Joke'' captured the ''Flora''. ''Flora'', of Dublin, had been sailing with a cargo of wine, fruit, and cotton, when the French privateer ''Vengeance'', of 20 guns and 130 men, had captured her. ''Black Joke'' sent ''Flora'' into Torbay.〔''Lloy's List'', 16 July 1799() - accessed 10 November 2013.〕 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「Hired armed cutter Black Joke」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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