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The Royal Navy employed two vessels designated as His Majesty's Hired armed vessel ''Sir Thomas Pasley'' during the French Revolutionary Wars. The two vessels were named for Admiral Sir Thomas Pasley. The vessels are also sometimes described as cutters, but more generally as brigs. The Spanish captured the first ''Sir Thomas Pasley''. The second had a brief, but highly productive, career that later led to her crew qualifying for the Naval General Service Medal. After she was returned to her owners in March 1802, she may have been wrecked in the Mediterranean that same year. Records of their service are far from complete and even their name is ambiguous as contemporary records refer to them interchangeably as ''Admiral Pasley'', ''Pasley'', and ''Sir Thomas Pasley''. (The National Maritime Museum's database has all three names, with considerable overlap in the service notes.) Sometimes the vessel is referred to as ''Paisley'', ''Admiral Paisley'', or ''Sir Thomas Paisley''. ==First ''Sir Thomas Pasley''== One account describes this vessel as the hired brig ''Pasley'', of 204 tons burthen (bm), and armed with two 6-pounder bow chasers and twelve 12-pounder carronades. she served the Royal Navy from 18 September 1800 to 9 December 1800.〔 She had a crew of 44 men and boys under the command of Lieutenant Charles Niven,〔Hepper (1994), p.96.〕 or Nevin. She left Plymouth on 17 October with despatches for Lisbon, Gibraltar, and Tetuan Bay.〔''Naval Chronicle'', Vol. 4, p.344.〕 She returned to Plymouth on 10 November in a remarkably quick round trip.〔''Naval Chronicle'', Vol. 4, pp.435-7.〕 She then left again on 22 November with despatches for Lisbon, Gibraltar, and Malta. was to have carried the dispatches but she had grounded in The Hamoaze.〔''Naval Chronicle'', Vol. 6, p.421-2.〕 On 10 December ''Pasley'' was off Ceuta when one, or perhaps two, Spanish gunboats engaged her. Spanish sources report that the attacker was the Spanish gunboat ''San Francisco Javier'', alias ''Poderoso'', from Cadiz. ''Poderoso'' was armed with one 24-pounder and two 6-pounder guns, and under the command of Miguel Villalba.〔''El Imparcial'', 19 March 1896.〕 All accounts agree that a gunboat sat on ''Pasley''s stern and proceeded to fire on her with the gunboat's long gun. The lack of wind prevented ''Pasley'' from turning to bring her two bow chasers into action. The location of the carronades thwarted attempts to bring the guns to the stern. (Had ''Pasley'' not had to rush to carry the dispatches to Gibraltar, she would have been modified at Plymouth to enable the guns to be moved to the stern when necessary.〔) (詳細はstruck. He had been wounded three times, and the master had been wounded as well. In all, ''Pasley'' suffered three men killed and eight wounded of her crew of 45 men. The court martial of Nevin absolved him of any culpability.〔 The Spanish took ''Pasley'' into Ceuta and then Algeciras. Nevin wrote from Algeciras on 10 December briefly describing the action and reporting that he and his wounded men were recovering rapidly.〔''Naval Chronicle'', Vol. 5, p.179.〕 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 vessel Sir Thomas Pasley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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