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} |} The Hired armed cutter ''Penelope'' served the Royal Navy from 29 January 1794 until the Spanish navy captured her off Gibraltar on 7 July 1799. ==Service== Lieutenant Robert Keen was appointed to command ''Penelope'' in 1793 and was promoted to Commander in 1797.〔Marshall (1828), Supplement 2, p. 207.〕 On 9 October 1795 ''Penelope'' shared with a number of British warships in the recapture of the ship ''Kent''. In April 1797, ''Penelope'' was in the West Indies under the command of Lieutenant Daniel Burdwood. On 18 April, Vice-Admiral Sir Hyde-Parker ordered Captain Hugh Pigot to take his frigate , as well as the frigates and , the brig and ''Penelope'' to cut out 14 vessels at Jean-Rabel, Haiti. The squadron rendezvoused on the 19th and then the boats went in on the night of the 20th. They succeeded in bringing out nine vessels, all merchant vessels that French privateers had taken as prizes. In late November ''Penelope'' was still under Burdwood's command when she captured a small French privateer cutter off the Start, which is some 16 leagues west of the Isle of Portland, on the English coast. The privateer had made no captures. This was probably the ''Maria'', for which prize money was payable a year later. On 24 January 1798, ''Penelope'' captured the French privateer cutter ''Venturer'' (or ''Aventurier''), ten leagues off the Start.〔 ''Venturer'' was pierced for eight guns but carried only two 3-pounders, plus six swivel guns, together with small arms. She was three days out of Plempoull and had not taken any prizes. At some point ''Penelope'' and the hired armed cutter ''Constitution'' shared in the proceeds of the capture of the Danish brig ''Neptunus''. ''Penelope'' then sailed to the Mediterranean. By this time she was under the command of Lieutenant Daniel Hamline (or Hamlyn). In the Mediterranean she carried despatches. For instance, on 12 May 1799, Admiral Nelson sent her to Malta with instructions for the British naval forces there and for the Russian admiral, who Nelson also thought was there. ''Penelope'' also captured or participated in the capture of the Spanish vessel ''Gaviota'' on 11 April. 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 Penelope」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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