HMS Guadeloupe (1763)
 Guadeloupe was built to the same design as HMS Carysfort, (pictured) | |
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 Great Britain | |
| Name: | HMS Guadeloupe |
| Namesake: | Invasion of Guadeloupe (1759) |
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| Laid down: | 8 May 1759 |
| Launched: | 5 December 1763 |
| Completed: | 11 July 1764 |
| Commissioned: | March 1764 |
| Out of service: | Scuttled on 10 October 1781 |
 France | |
| Name: | Coventry |
| Acquired: | Salvaged |
| Commissioned: | April 1783 |
| Fate: | Deleted from navy list in 1786 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class and type: | Coventry-class sixth-rate frigate |
| Displacement: | 850 tons (French) |
| Tons burthen: | 586 30⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam: | 33 ft 8 in (10.3 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
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HMS Guadeloupe was a 28-gun sixth-rate Coventry-class frigate of the Royal Navy. The ship was designed by Sir Thomas Slade, and was initially contracted to be built with the Pembrokeshire shipwright John Williams of Neyland; however he became bankrupt and the Admiralty transferred the order to the Plymouth Naval Dockyard.
Guadeloupe served during the American War of Independence. At Yorktown her men, stores and guns were landed to support the British Army during the siege. When she came under fire from shore batteries the British scuttled her in the York River, Virginia, on 10 October 1781 to prevent the French capturing her.[2]
The French Navy subsequently salvaged her and then commissioned her in April 1783 after they had repaired her.[1] She served until being deleted from their navy lists at Rochefort in 1786.[3]
Citations
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