HMS Ambuscade (1773)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Ambuscade and French ship Embuscade.
HMS Ambuscade was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, built in the Grove Street shipyard of Adams & Barnard at Deptford in 1773. The French captured her in 1798 but the British recaptured her in 1803. She was broken up in 1810.
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Ambuscade fighting Bayonnaise, by Jean-François Hue | |
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Great Britain | |
Name | HMS Ambuscade |
Ordered | 25 December 1770 |
Builder | Adams & Barnard, Deptford |
Laid down | April 1771 |
Launched | 17 September 1773 |
Commissioned | January 1776 |
Captured | 14 December 1798 |
France | |
Name | Embuscade |
Acquired | 14 December 1798 |
Captured | 28 May 1803 |
United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Ambuscade |
Acquired | 28 May 1803 |
Fate | Broken up in 1810 |
General characteristics as built | |
Class and type | 32-gun fifth-rate Amazon-class frigate (1773) frigate |
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Beam | 35 ft 1.75 in (10.7125 m) |
Draught |
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Depth of hold | 12 ft 2 in (3.71 m) |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Complement | 220 |
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