HMS Ambuscade (1773)

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Ambuscade (right) at the action of 14 December 1798
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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 (centre) on the stocks at the Isle of Dogs in September 1773

American Revolution

Sometime in June, 177 she captured the sloops 2 Brothers and Succsess in Massachusetts Bay. On 3 June she captured Swallow in Casco Bay, Massachusetts.[1] On 18 June, 1777 she captured Hope in Boston Bay.[2] Sometime in September, 1777 she recaptured Restoration in Boston Bay.[3] On 1 October, 1777 she captured S. W. Erskine.[4] On 19 May 1778 she recaptured the brig Mary.[5] On 31 May 1778 she captured the American brig Charming Sally near Cape Sambro.[6]

On 22 June 1779, after a short action, Ambuscade captured the French brig Hélene, which was the former Royal Navy 14-gun sloop Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".. The Royal Navy took her back into service under her original name.Template:Sfnp[7] Six days later Ambuscade captured the French privateer Prince de Montbray.[7] The privateer was possibly out of Granville and under the command of Captain Boisnard-Maisonneuve.Template:Sfnp

Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". captured the private man of war Américaine on 26 January 1781. She was armed with 32 guns and carried a crew of 245. Ambuscade shared in the proceeds of the capture.Template:Efn

French Revolutionary Wars

Circa June 1797, in the Caribbean, Ambuscade captured the 32-ton, 3-gun privateer cutter Buonaparte, from Saint-Malo. She had a crew of 32 men under Captain F. Roussel.Template:Sfnp

In August 1798 Ambuscade, commanded by Captain Henry Jenkins,[8] with Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". and the hired armed cutter Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". captured the chasse maree Francine .[9] Then Ambuscade shared with Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". and Stag, in the capture on 20 November of the Hirondelle.[10] On 13 December 1798, Ambuscade captured a French merchantman, Faucon, with a cargo of sugar and coffee bound for Bordeaux.[11]

Disaster struck the following day. Ambuscade was blockading Rochefort, when the smaller French corvette Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". captured her at the action of 14 December 1798. The court martial exonerated Captain Henry Jenkins of Ambuscade, though a good case could be made that he exhibited poor leadership and ship handling.[12] The French brought her into service as Embuscade.

Napoleonic Wars

On 28 May 1803, Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". recaptured her. She had a crew of 187 men under the command of capitaine de vaisseau Fradin, and was 30 days out of Cap Francais, bound for Rochefort.[13] The Royal Navy took her back into service as Ambuscade.

In March 1805, she was attached to Sir James Craig's military expedition to Italy. Along with Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., Craig's flagship, and Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., Ambuscade escorted a fleet of transports to Malta.[14]

On 4 March 1807, Ambuscade captured the ship Istria. Unité, Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". and Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". (or Weazle) were in company and shared in the prize money.[15]

Fate

Ambuscade was broken up in 1810.

Notes

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Citations

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  11. ↑ Correspondence, Lord Bridport to Evan Nepean, 22 December 1798. Cited in Naval Chronicle Vol. 1, 1799, p. 77
  12. ↑ Hepper (1994), p. 89.
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  14. ↑ von Pivka, Navies.
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