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} |} HMS ''Gaiete'' (also ''Gayette'') was a French ''Bonne Citoyenne''-class corvette that the British frigate captured off Bermuda in 1797. She then served the Royal Navy until she was sold in 1808. ==Capture== ''Gaité'' initially sailed from Bayonne to Rochefort. She then received the mission to carry passengers and supplies to Cayenne. Her mission completed, she proceeded to patrol the Antilles.〔''Fonds'', Vol. 1, p.191.〕 At daybreak on 10 August 1797 44-gun ''Arethusa'', under the command of Captain Thomas Wolley, was in the Atlantic Ocean at when she sighted three ships to windward. At 7:30 a.m. one of the ships bore down to within half-gunshot, and opened fire. She proved to be the 20-gun ''Gaieté'', under the command of ''Enseigne de vaisseau'' Jean-François Guignier. She had been out of Cayenne about four weeks when she encountered ''Arethusa''. With ''Gaieté'' having taken on a ship twice her size, there could only be one outcome. The British captured ''Gaieté'' within half an hour. She had sustained considerable damage to her sails and rigging, and lost two seamen killed and eight wounded, including Ensign Dubourdieu.〔Levot, p.129〕 ''Arethusa'' lost one seaman killed, and the captain's clerk and two seamen wounded.〔James (1837), Vol. 2, pp.87-8.〕 The French brig observed the engagement and then sailed away.〔 The Royal Navy captured ''Espoir'' in September, 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「HMS Gaiete (1797)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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