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Captain Thomas Garth RN (died November 1841) was a Napoleonic-era British naval commander. Garth, whose seat was Haines Hill at Hurst in Berkshire, was the son of Charles Garth MP for Devizes and the government agent for the colonial provinces of South Carolina, Georgia and Maryland. He was also a nephew of General Thomas Garth, Colonel of the first dragoons and Principal Equerry to George III. ==Career== Garth became a naval Commander on 3 March 1804 and was given the command of the 38-gun frigate HMS ''Imperieuse'', with which he subsequently sailed in an expedition against Antwerp. After the reduction of Flushing, Garth was engaged in various operations on the river Scheldt. On 16 August 1809, whilst again in command of the ''Impérieuse'', Garth in ascending the Scheldt after the other frigates, entered by mistake the Terneuse, instead of the Baerlandt channel, and became in consequence exposed to the fire of the Terneuse battery (located in (Terneuzen, the Netherlands )). In returning that fire, the frigate discharged from her carronades some shrapnel shells; one of which, bursting near the magazine of the fort, containing 3000 barrels of powder and a great quantity of cartridges, caused an explosion which killed 75 men. The battery fired no more, and the ''Impérieuse'' passed by. In the spring of 1810, Thomas Garth was put under the orders of Sir George Cockburn who had been sent to Quiberon Bay to work with Baron De Kolli, who was trying to arrange the release of Ferdinand VII of Spain, held at Valençay. In November of that year, Garth took command of the 22-gun HMS ''Cossack'', and later of the 32-gun HMS ''Cerberus''. In ''Cerberus'' he captured various armed ships and merchantmen in the Mediterranean. 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「Thomas Garth (Royal Navy)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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