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HMS Hussar (1763)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Hussar.
HMS Hussar was a sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, built in England in 1761–63. She was a 28-gun ship of the Mermaid class, designed by Sir Thomas Slade. She was wrecked at New York in 1780.
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Name | HMS Hussar |
Ordered | 30 January 1762 |
Builder | Thomas Inwood, Rotherhithe, England |
Laid down | 1 April 1762 |
Launched | 26 August 1763 |
Completed | 7 November 1763 at Deptford Dockyard |
Commissioned | August 1763 |
Fate | Ran aground in New York, 23 November 1780 |
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Class and type | Mermaid-class frigate |
Tons burthen | 627 64⁄94 (bm) |
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Beam | 33 ft 10+3⁄8 in (10.3 m) |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Complement | 200 |
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In early 2013, a cannon from Hussar was discovered stored in a building in New York's Central Park still loaded with live gunpowder and shot.