HMS Monkey (1826)

HMS Monkey jirgin ruwa ne na Royal Navy na Burtaniya, wanda aka kaddamar a 1826 a Jamaica kuma an sanya shi a cikin ƙungiyar West Indies. Ta yi sanannun kama jiragen bayi guda uku, daya ya haɗa da aikin jirgi guda ɗaya akan jirgin bawa da ya fi girma kuma ya fi makamai fiye da kanta. Ta rushe a 1831 kusa da Tampico . 

## Asalin
Mataimakin Admiral Lawrence Halsted, Babban Kwamandan, West Indies, ya ba da umarnin  da Monkey da aka gina a kan layin .[Akwai jirgi na uku, *Nimble*, wanda Sojojin Ruwa suka same shi da lahani kuma sun ki yarda.

## Ayyuka
Lieutenant Edward Holland ya ba da umurni ga Monkey a ranar 26 ga Yuli 1826, don Jamaica. A watan Yulin 1827, Lieutenant James Beckford Lewis Hay ya maye gurbin Holland. An nada Lieutenant Martin Cole don maye gurbin Hay a ranar 20 ga Satumba 1828, amma a watan Oktoba Lieutenant Joseph Sherer ya zama kwamandan.[

A ranar 8 ga watan Disamba, Monkey ya sauka da wani sashi na 2nd West India Regiment, karkashin umurnin Kyaftin Thomas McPherson, a kan Exuma. Zuwan sojojin ya kwantar da hankalin bayi a wani shuka a can.

A ranar 14 ga Maris 1829, Monkey, a karkashin umurnin Lieutenant Joseph Sherer, ya kama jirgin Amurka *Borneo* . 

A ranar 7 ga Afrilu 1829,  Monkey ya kama jirgin ruwa na Mutanen Espanya *Josefa*, a cikin Bahamas, kusa da tsibirin Berry ko Rocks (25°50′30′′N 77°45′30′′W / 25.84167°N 77.75833°W / 25. 84167; -77.75833). *Josepha* tana dauke da bindiga guda 12, tana da ma'aikata 21, kuma tana dauke da fursunoni 206; maza 79, mata 36, yara maza 48 da 'yan mata 43. Bayan kama *Josefa* an haifi yarinya daya, kuma mace daya ta mutu. An biya kudade na farko ga fursunoni 206 a watan Fabrairun 1831. 

A ranar 27 ga Yuni 1829,  ta kama jirgin bawa na *Midas* kusa da Bimini a 25°55′N 77°17′W / 25.917°N 77.283°W / 25.917; -77.283.  *Midas* mai nauyin tan 360, wanda ake kira Providencia, yana karkashin umurnin Kyaftin Ildefonso Martinez. *Midas*, wanda ya hau manyan bindigogi huɗu masu tsayi 18 da matsakaicin bindigogi 12 kuma yana da ma'aikatan sama da 50, an dauki shi a cikin wani mataki na minti 35. Ɗaya ko fiye daga cikin ma'aikatanta da bayi a cikin jirgin sun mutu kuma wasu sun ji rauni a yaƙin.[13]

ya taimaka wa Monkey ya raka *Midas* zuwa tashar jiragen ruwa. *Midas* ya bar Afirka a watan Afrilu na shekara ta 1829, tare da 'yan Afirka 562, amma 369 ne kawai ke da rai lokacin da aka kama *Midas*, kuma wasu 72 sun mutu daga "smallpox, zawo & scurvy" kafin Monkey da *Nimble* su iya ɗaukar *Midas* zuwa Havana.[12] Lieutenant Sherer ya gano cewa ma'aikatan *Midas* sun hada da Amurkawa biyu (wanda ya ji rauni sosai ta hanyar kamawa), da kuma 'yan Burtaniya guda biyar, *Doki* har da daya "Black na Jamaica". Scherer ya juya Amurkawa zuwa Grampus.  An biya kuɗin kai don fursunoni 400 a watan Fabrairun shekara ta 1831.

Sherer ya sami ci gaba zuwa matsayin Kwamandan a ranar 30 ga Disamba 1829, saboda nasarorin da ya samu.

A cikin 1830, Monkey ya kasance atakaice a ƙarƙashin umurnin Lieutenant Willoughby Shortland . Ta yi *Doki* a matsayin mai tausayi ga . Shortland ya sauya zuwa umurnin  a watan Maris na shekara ta 1831.

## Rashin
Monkey tana karkashin umurnin Mate Thomas Downes lokacin da ta rushe a ranar 13 ga Mayu 1831, kusa da Tampico, Mexico. Wani jirgin ruwa na cikin gida yana jan ta a fadin mashaya a Tampico amma kawai ya yi nasarar gudu da ita. An yi zaton an *Doki* ta har zuwa wani fashewa kuma an sayar da gawar ta a gwanjo a ranar 25 ga Mayu. Duk da haka, an ceto ma'aikatanta.

## Manazarta