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HMS ''Lively'' was a 20-gun post ship of the Royal Navy, launched in 1756.〔Winfield, British Warships.〕 During the Seven Years' War she captured several vessels, most notably the French corvette ''Valeur'' in 1760. She then served during the American Revolutionary War, where she helped initiate the Battle of Bunker Hill. The French captured her in 1778, but the British recaptured her 1781. She was sold in 1784. ==Seven Years' War== ''Lively'' was commissioned in July 1756 under Captain Francis Wyatt. In November 1756 she captured the French privateer ''Intrépide'', of Nantes, and her prize, the ''Charming Molly'', which had been sailing from Malaga to Bristol. ''Intrépide'' was armed with eight guns and 10 swivel guns, and had a crew of 75 men. ''Lively'' brought the two vessels into Plymouth.〔''Gentlemans Magazine'', vol. 26, p.593.〕 Around this time she also recaptured the merchant vessel ''Pike'', of Liverpool.〔''The general magazine of arts and sciences: philosophical, philological, mathematical, and mechanical'', p.440.〕 ''Lively'' sailed for Jamaica on 31 January 1757.〔 In March 1759 she was under the command of Captain Frederick Maitland, at Jamaica. On 17 October 1760 she was with and when they intercepted five French vessels in the Windward Passage. On 18 October ''Lively'' used her sweeps to catch up with the sternmost enemy vessel, the French 20-gun corvette ''Valeur''. ''Valeur'' had a crew of 160 men under the command of a Captain Talbot. In the hour-and-a-half fight before ''Valeur'' struck, ''Lively'' had two men killed and no wounded; ''Valeur'' had 38 killed and 25 wounded, including her captain, master and boatswain. ''Boreas'' captured ''Sirenne'', and ''Hampshire'' chased the merchant frigate ''Prince Edward'' on shore where her crew set fire to her, leading her to blow up. On 19 October, ''Hampshire'', with ''Lively'' and ''Valeur'', cornered the King's frigate ''Fleur de Lis'' in Freshwater Bay, a little to leeward of Port-de-Paix; her crew too set her on fire. The merchant frigate ''Duc de Choiseul'', of 32 guns and 180 men under the command of Captain Bellevan, escaped into Port-de-Paix. In March 1762 Captain J. Jorer took command of ''Lively'' from Maitland.〔 Captain the Honourable Kieth Stewart replaced Jorer later that year, and cruised her in home waters. In June 1763 he sailed her to the Mediterranean and remained in command into 1764.〔 In April 1769 Captain Robert Fanshawe recommissioned ''Lively'' for the Channel.〔 Fanshawe apparently commanded her through 1770, and in 1771 was superseded by Captain G. Talbot. In early 1771 ''Lively'' served at Plymouth as the flagship of Admiral Richard Spry. Then on 18 June 1771 Talbot sailed her to North America.〔 In 1773 Captain William Peere Williams took command of ''Lively'' on 11 October 1773, sailing her back to Britain and paying her off in December.〔 Captain Thomas Bishop recommissioned ''Lively'' in January 1774.〔 On 16 April he sailed her for North America. 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 Lively (1756)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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