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} |} The USRC ''James Madison'' was a schooner launched in 1807 at Baltimore for service with the United States Revenue-Marine. During the first months of the War of 1812 she captured several merchant vessels, but in August 1812 captured her. Lord Belmore, of Enniskillen, bought her and converted her to a privateer brig named ''Osprey''. After the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812 she became a yacht for a family trip to the eastern Mediterranean. In 1819, at the end of the trip, Bellmore sold her to Ferdinand I, King of Naples; her ultimate fate is unknown. ==Revenue cutter== On 26 June 1807, the Treasury Department of the United states authorized the Baltimore customs collector to build the cutter ''James Madison''. She was completed in 1808. ''James Madison'' then sailed from Baltimore on 18 January 1809 to Savannah, Georgia, to take up station there.〔''U.S. Coast Guard History Program: War of 1812 Revenue Cutters & Masters''.〕 George Brooks became First mate of ''James Madison'' on 17 September 1810, and master on 19 December 1811.〔 After the outbreak of the War of 1812 in June, on 5 July, ''James Madison'' detained the British schooner ''Wade'' at Amelia Island, which at that time belonged to Spanish Florida. ''Wade''s actual captors were US Navy gunboats and ''Wade'' was carrying pineapples, turtles and 20,000 dollars in specie.〔 ''Lloyd's List'' reported that American gunboats in St Mary's River had taken the ''Wade'', Johnson, master, and another vessel, Pindar, master, from Nassau and carrying specie.〔''Lloyd's List'',() - accessed 6 December 2013.〕 Brooks expanded the size of ''James Madison''s crew to some 70 officers and men. He also had them armed, using borrowed funds. The size of her crew was anomalously large for a Revenue Marine vessel, suggesting that Brooks had intended to engage in privateering.〔 On 17 July 1812 Brooks declared that ''James Madison'' would sail from Charleston to intercept six British merchant vessels reported to be sailing up the coast from Jamaica without a naval escort.〔 Six days later he succeeded in capturing the British brig ''Shamrock'', May, master, of 300 tons bm, six guns, and a crew of 15 men.〔''Lloyd's List'',() - accessed 6 December 2013.〕 She had been sailing from London to Amelia Island with a cargo of arms and ammunition.〔 Then on 1 August ''James Madison'' captured the brig ''Santa Rosa''. ''James Madison'' sent ''Santa Rosa'', which was sailing under Spanish colours, into Savannah.〔''Lloyd's Maritime List'',() - accessed 5 December 2013.〕 ''James Madison''s last cruise began on 15 August when she left Savannah in the company of the privateers ''Paul Jones'', ''Hazard'', and ''Spencer''. ''James Madison'' separated from the other three and proceeded to sail well beyond her normal area of operations. On 20 August she encountered the Jamaica convoy of 47 merchant vessels, which were sailing under the protection of , which was the flagship for the convoy, and ''Barbadoes''.〔 Brooks attempted to capture a vessel, but despite reports to the contrary, failed. He dogged the convoy until 22 August when ''Barbadoes'' captured ''James Madison'' after a seven-hour chase.〔 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「USRC James Madison (1807)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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