HMS Ambuscade (1773)

Ambuscade fighting Bayonnaise, by Jean-François Hue
History
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
Length	126 ft 3 in (38.48 m) (gundeck) 104 ft 1 in (31.72 m) (keel)
Beam	35 ft 1.75 in (10.7125 m)
Draught	8 ft 4 in (2.54 m) (forwards) 13 ft 0 in (3.96 m) (aft)
Depth of hold	12 ft 2 in (3.71 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	220
Armament	Upper deck: 26 × 12-pounder guns QD: 4 × 6-pounder guns + 4 × 18-pounder carronades Fc: 2 × 6-pounder guns + 2 × 18-pounder carronades

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.