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} |} The Hired armed cutter ''Lurcher'' was a 12-gun cutter that served the Royal Navy from 15 August 1795 until 15 January 1801 when a French privateer captured her in the Channel. *On 6 June 1793, the cutter ''Lurcher'', of 100 tons burthen, eight 3 and 4-pounder guns, and under the command of Christopher Heayott, received a Letter of Marque.〔(Letter of Marque, p.75 )〕 ==Naval service== On 1 April 1798, ''Lurcher'' and the hired armed cutter ''Nimrod'' recaptured the ''Roebuck'' packet, which the French privateer ''Adelaide'' had captured on 20 March. ''Lurcher'' and ''Nimrod'' sent ''Roebuck'' into Plymouth.〔''Lloyd's Marine List'',() - accessed 1 December 2013.〕 In 1799, ''Lurcher'' was under the command of Lieutenant J. Betts, and stationed at Portsmouth.〔''Naval Chronicle'', Vol. 1, p. 264.〕 ''Lurcher'' shared, with many other British warships, in the capture of the French privateer ''Aimable Victoire'' on 29 January 1799. The actual captor, after a chase of eight and a half hours, was . ''Aimable Victoire'' was armed with 16 brass 8-pounder guns and two iron 6-pounder guns, and had a crew of 86 men. She was on her first cruise, was one day out of Cherbourg, and had not captured anything. In May, ''Lurcher'', still under Bett's command, landed at the mouth of the River Shannon to procure fresh provisions for , Admiral Lord Bridport's flagship.〔''London Chronicle'', 18-21 May 1799, p.486.〕 On 19 June ''Lurcher'', Lieutenant Robert Forbes, came into Plymouth from Brest, with damage that she had sustained in an engagement with a French cutter. ''Lurcher'' had succeeded in cutting out the French cutter from the Penmarks.〔''Naval Chronicle'', (Jul-Dec 1804), Vol. 4, p.78.〕 On 13 November 1800, the hired armed cutters ''Nile'' and ''Lurcher'' captured the French brig ''Prothee''. Five days later they captured a French privateer brig of 14 guns.〔''The Naval chronicle'', Vol. 4, p.518.〕 Prize money was due to be paid on 10 July 1801 in Plymouth. Two weeks later, on 23 November, Captain Sir Richard Strachan in chased a French convoy in to the Morbihan where it sheltered under the protection of shore batteries and the 20-gun corvette ''Réolaise''. was able to force the corvette onto the shore at Port Navalo, though she got off again.〔James (1837), Vol. 3, p.58.〕 The hired armed cutter ''Suworow'' then towed in four boats with Lieutenant Hennah of ''Captain'' and a cutting-out party of seamen and marines. ''Nile'' and ''Lurcher'' towed in four more boats from ''Magicienne''. Although the cutting-out party landed under heavy fire of grape and musketry, it was able to set the corvette on fire; shortly thereafter she blew up. Only one British seaman, a crewman from ''Suworow'', was killed.〔''The Naval Chronicle'', Vol. 4, pp.507-8.〕 However, ''Suworow's'' sails and rigging were so badly cut up that ''Captain'' had to tow her.〔''The Naval Chronicle'', Vol. 4, p.529.〕 On 7 December 1800, ''Nile'' discovered a convoy of 15 or 16 small vessels coming round the point of Croisic near the mouth of the river Vilaine in Quiberon Bay.〔 ''Lurcher'' joined ''Nile'' and together the two cutters captured or destroyed nine vessels at a cost of only one man wounded on ''Lurcher'', despite fire from shore batteries. The three vessels that fell to ''Lurcher'' were all sailing from Nantes to Yannes with wine from Nantes.〔 The three vessels were: *''Maria Joseph'', Martin Beroist, master, of two men and eight tons. ''Lurcher'' captured her. *''Eponine'', Yine Le Frank, of three men and 13 tons. ''Lurcher'' drove her on shore on Houat with the loss of her cargo. *''Bon Secour'', Yine Nicolane, of two men and eight tons. ''Lurcher'' sank her at anchor, but after saving her cargo. In 1801 ''Lurcher'' was still under the command of Lieutenant Forbes when a 16-gun French privateer captured her.〔 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 Lurcher」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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