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The Royal Navy employed at least two cutters designated as the Hired armed cutter ''Nile'' during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. ==First hired armed cutter ''Nile''== The first hired armed cutter ''Nile'' had a burthen of 136 tons. She was armed with ten 12-pounder carronades and two 6-pounder bow guns. Her contract ran from 29 March 1799 to 21 November 1801.〔Winfield (2008), p.389.〕 From at least May her commander was Lieutenant George Argles. Four days after that, on 17 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''. Lieutenant Argles skillful maneuvered ''Nile'', as the first British vessel up, kept the corvette from the north shore.〔 was then able to force the corvette onto the shore at Port Navale, 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; seven men from ''Captain'' were wounded.〔''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.〕 ''Nile'' captured a merchant vessel that was then burnt. ''Nile'' and Argeles captured the brig ''Assistance'', A.H. Stark, master, on 12 October 1800. This was the Swedish brig ''Assistansen'', Alex Stark, master, that had been sailing from Bayonne to Stockholm with a cargo of rosin and that ''Nile'' brought into Plymouth on 22 October.〔''London Chronicle'', Vol. 87, p.400.〕 About three weeks later, on 13 November, 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.〕 On 7 December, ''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 four largest were decked and Argles believed that they could be sailed back to England. The others were not. The four largest had been sailing from Boulogne to Brest with cargoes of brandy and wine. They were: *''Aimable François'', of 55 tons, Geldo Bouligan, master; *''Maria Joseph'', of 48 tons, Pierre Midago, master; *''St Pierre'', of 39 tons, Pierre Hoeck, master; and lastly, *''Notre Dame De Consolation'', of 36 tons, Clouarie, master. On 8 February 1801 ''Nile'' came into Plymouth from Quiberon with the officers of , which had wrecked there, with no loss of life, but with 20 of her men captured when they reached shore. ''Nile'' went in with a flag of truce to ascertain their fate. Earlier during this cruise, Lieutenant Argles and ''Nile'' drove on shore a cutter of sixteen 12-pounders and a lugger of twelve 9-pounders. She tried to recover them but was driven off by heavy fire from shore batteries. At high tide the French were able to recover the two vessels, though fire from ''Nile'' had damaged them badly, and take them into Morbihan.〔''Naval chronicle'', Vol. 5, p. 182.〕 ''Nile'' shared with , , and the hired armed cutter ''Flirt'' in the proceeds of the capture of the ''San Pedro D'Alcantare''. ''San Pedro D'Alcantare'' was captured on 27 July 1801. On the same day ''Nile'' also captured the ''Egalité''. 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 Nile」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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