Английская Википедия:HMS Thames (1805)
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Шаблон:Infobox ship imageШаблон:Infobox ship careerШаблон:Infobox ship characteristicsHMS Thames was a 32-gun fifth-rate Шаблон:Sclass of the Royal Navy, launched in 1805 at Chatham.
A wartime lack of building materials meant that Minerva and her class were built to the outdated 50-year-old design of the Шаблон:Sclass, and were thus smaller than many contemporary frigates.Шаблон:Sfn
Service history
Thames was expected to be commissioned by Captain John Loring but a delay in such meant that ThamesШаблон:'s first captain was actually Captain Bridges Taylor, who commissioned Thames in November 1805.[1]Шаблон:Sfn On 9 July 1806, Thames, Phoebe and Blanchewere directed towards Shetland to intercept French frigates that were menacing the fishing vessels.Шаблон:Sfn Thames initially served on the Downs Station before briefly serving on the Jamaica Station and in the Mediterranean from 3 March 1807.Шаблон:Sfn In April 1808 Thames returned to Portsmouth where Captain George Waldegrave assumed command and then sailed again for the Mediterranean.[1] On 27 July 1810 Thames was serving alongside the sloops Pilot and HMS Weazel; together they drove an enemy convoy ashore at Amantea and took six gunboats, two large galleys, and twenty-eight transports with their subsequent landing parties.Шаблон:Sfn[1] The destruction of the convoy halted Joachim Murat's planned invasion of Sicily.[1] From June 1810 Thames served with the sloop Cephalus; on 16 June a convoy the ships had been following was found beached at Cetraro and a landing party of 180 men burned the entire convoy.[1] After this command of Thames transferred to Captain Charles Napier.Шаблон:Sfn
On 20 July 1811 Thames and Cephalus attacked and captured the fort at Porto del Infrischi and in turn captured eleven gunboats, an armed felucca, and fourteen merchant vessels.[1] In September Thames came under the orders of Captain Henry Duncan in HMS Imperieuse and together they captured ten Neapolitan gunboats at Palinuro on 2 November.Шаблон:Sfn In the spring of 1812 Napier became the senior naval officer on the coast of Calabria and as such Thames and Pilot captured Sapri on 14 May after a two-hour bombardment, capturing twenty-nine merchant vessels.[1] In February 1813 it was found that the island of Ponza was a hub for enemy privateers and so on 16 February Thames and the frigate HMS Furieuse embarked two battalions of soldiers and landed them under fire at Ponza on 26 February.[1]Шаблон:Sfn With support from the frigates the soldiers took the heights of the island, inducing its governor to surrender.[1]
In April Captain John Purvis replaced Napier in command, taking Thames to Sheerness where she was refitted as a troopship between August 1813 and January 1814 to serve on the North America Station under the command of Commander Kenelm Somerville.Шаблон:Sfn[1] In August 1814 Thames, now under Commander Charles Leonard Irby, participated in the expedition up the Patuxent River to attack the Chesapeake Bay Flotilla, which resulted in the burning of Washington.Шаблон:Sfn[1] Under the rules of prize-money, Thames shared in the proceeds of the capture of the American vessels in the Battle of Lake Borgne on 14 December 1814.Шаблон:EfnШаблон:Efn In May 1815 Thames returned to England under the command of Commander William Walpole and was broken up at Plymouth in October 1816.Шаблон:Sfn
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