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The hired armed lugger ''Black Joke'' was a lugger of ten 12-pounder carronades and 108 92/94 tons burthen that entered into the service of the Royal Navy on 22 May 1808.〔Winfield (2008), p.394.〕 Lieutenant James Leach, late of , captained ''Black Joke'' on a special service to the Spanish coast before taking command of the bomb vessel on the Downs station.〔Marshall (1832), Vol. 3, Part 2, pp.408-9.〕 Lieutenant Moses Cannadey (or Cannady) became ''Black Joke''s captain after having been captain of ''Pickle'', which he had wrecked on 27 July 1808. On 15 May 1809 ''Black Joke'', under Cannadey, captured the ''San Buona Ventura''. This was probably the Spanish lugger ''Buena Ventura'', which had been sailing from Bayonne to Bilbao and which ''Black Joke'' sent into Plymouth on the 23rd.〔''Lloyd's List'', 26 May 1809() - accessed 10 November 2013.〕 On 10 June 1809 ''Amelia'' and captured several French vessels, including the French corvette ''Mouche'', of 16 brass 8-pounder guns and a crew of 180 men, which ''Black Joke'' had exchanged broadsides with some time earlier. Between 30 July and 16 August ''Black Joke'' participated in the unsuccessful expedition to Walcheren and the adjacent Scheldt islands. On 22 April 1810 she recaptured the ''Francis''. Another account has the recapture taking place on 18 April. ''Francis'' had been sailing from Fayal to Liverpool when she was captured. She arrived at Scilly on 26 May.〔''Lloyd's List'', no.4484,() - accessed 10 November 2013.〕 Salvage money for the ''Francis'' was due for payment on 20 October 1810. On 1 June the French captured ''Black Joke'' in the Channel.〔Hepper (1994), p.132.〕〔Gossett (1986), p.52.〕 ''Black Joke'' had been carrying dispatches from Constantinople and Malta, and possibly overland dispatches from India, at the time of her capture. ''Lloyd's List'' described her as carrying only four guns, and reported that two French privateers had captured her and taken her into Algiers.〔''Lloyd's List'', 14 August 1810() - accessed 10 November 2013.〕 She may have been the same vessel as the Hired armed cutter ''Black Joke''. In his narrative of his voyages in the Mediterranean between 1810 and 1814, Charles Robert Cockerell reports traveling with Lieutenant Cannadey in April 1810 to Constantinople and the retaking of the ''Francis'' en route.〔Cockerell (1903), p.2.〕 He further reports that ''Black Joke'' was an old vessel, having been at the Battle of Camperdown, which is consistent with one of the first mentions of the cutter ''Black Joke''.〔 Cockerell has her being captured off Algiers by two French privateers, one of 10 and one of 8 guns.〔Cockerell (1903), p.13.〕 Lord Byron describes ''Black Joke'' as having 6 guns and a crew of 27 men. He further writes that Captain Sir Robert Barrie of ''Pomone'' reported that two privateers had captured ''Black Joke'' off Sardinia, but not until after she had lost seven men of her crew killed resisting them and Cannadey had succeeded in throwing his dispatches overboard.〔Cochran p.63〕 In 1811, Cannadey is listed as the captain of the lugger , in the Downs. Lieutenant Moses Cannadey died at Plymstock on 14 January 1829.〔''United service journal and Naval and Military magazine'' - 1829, Part 1, p. 263.〕 ==Footnotes== 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 lugger Black Joke」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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