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Throughout naval history during times of war the ships involved in battles, blockades and other patrol missions would often result in the capture of enemy ships or those of a neutral country. If a ship proved to be a valuable prize efforts would sometimes be made to capture the vessel with inflicting the least amount of damage as was practically possible. Both military and merchant ships were captured, often renamed and then used in the service of the capturing country's navy, or in some other utility capacity for that country. As an incentive to search far and wide for enemy ships cargoes on board these vessels were often divided up and awarded to the capturing crew members. Throughout the 1800s war prize laws were established to help opposing countries settle claims amicably.〔Roosevelt, 1883 pp.''xxxvi'', 165, 350, etc〕〔Yonge, 1863 pp.239, 269, 288, 295, etc〕 Private ships were also authorized by various countries at war through a Letter of marque, legally allowing a ship and commander to engage and capture the various ships that were deemed unfriendly to that country.〔Eastman, 2004 pp.1–7〕 ==Legend== * Dates of capture are listed chronologically and appear in bold * Names of commanders are those in command when ships were captured. * The symbol ' ' following a commander's name denotes he was killed in action. * Name of ship and flag of country listed are those in use at time of ship's capture and will sometimes link to a page with name and flag used after capture. *This list does not include ships captured by pirates. 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「List of ships captured in the 19th century」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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