Английская Википедия:HMS Ambuscade (1773)

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Model of Ambuscade, by Joseph Marshall

HMS Ambuscade was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, built in the Grove Street shipyard of Adams & Barnard at Depford 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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The Adams shipyard from the Isle of Dogs, with His Majesty’s new frigate Ambuscade ‘on the stocks’, dressed with flags and ready for launching in September 1773, John Cleveley the Elder

American Revolution

Sometime in June, 177 she captured the sloops "2 Brothers" and "Succsess" in Massachusetts Bay. on 3 June 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 brig Mary.[5] On 31 May 1778 she captured 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 Шаблон:HMS. The Royal Navy took her back into service under her original name.Шаблон: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.Шаблон:Sfnp

Шаблон:HMS 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.Шаблон: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.Шаблон:Sfnp

In August 1798 Ambuscade, commanded by Captain Henry Jenkins,[8] with Шаблон:HMS and the hired armed cutter Шаблон:Ship captured the chasse maree Francine .[9] Then Ambuscade shared with Шаблон:HMS and Stag, in the capture on 20 November of the Hirondelle.[10]

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Ambuscade at the Battle of Tory Island, 12 October 1798
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Combat de la Bayonnaise contre l'Ambuscade, 1798, by Louis-Philippe Crépin

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 Шаблон:Ship 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, Шаблон:HMS 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 Шаблон:HMS, Craig's flagship, and Шаблон:HMS, Ambuscade escorted a fleet of transports to Malta.[14]

On 4 March 1807, Ambuscade captured the ship Istria. Unité, Шаблон:HMS, Шаблон:HMS and Шаблон:HMS (or Weazle) were in company and shared in the prize money.[15]

Fate

Ambuscade was broken up in 1810.

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Pierre Ozanne's depiction of the captured Ambuscade towing the much-damaged Bayonnaise back to harbour; the difference in size between the ships is exaggerated

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  1. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  2. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  3. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  4. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  5. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  6. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  7. ↑ 7,0 7,1 Шаблон:London Gazette
  8. ↑ Wareham (2001), p. 137.
  9. ↑ Шаблон:London Gazette
  10. ↑ Шаблон:London Gazette
  11. ↑ Correspondence, Lord Bridport to Evan Nepean, 22 December 1798. Cited in Naval Chronicle Vol. 1, 1799, p. 77
  12. ↑ Hepper (1994), p. 89.
  13. ↑ Шаблон:London Gazette
  14. ↑ von Pivka, Navies.
  15. ↑ Шаблон:London Gazette
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