HMS Guadeloupe (1763)

History
Great Britain
Name:	HMS Guadeloupe
Namesake:	Invasion of Guadeloupe (1759)
Ordered:	19 September 1757 (Williams) 29 June 1758 (Plymouth)
Builder:	John Williams, Neyland, Pembrokeshire (initially) Plymouth Dockyard
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
Class and type:	Coventry-class sixth-rate frigate
Displacement:	850 tons (French)
Tons burthen:	586  30⁄94 (bm)
Length:	118 ft 4 in (36.1 m) (gundeck) 97 ft 3 1⁄2 in (29.7 m) (keel)
Beam:	33 ft 8 in (10.3 m)
Depth of hold:	10 ft 6 in (3.20 m)
Sail plan:	Full-rigged ship
Complement:	British service:200 French service:130 (peace) and 210 (war)
Armament:	British service: Upper deck: 24 × 9-pounder guns QD: 4 × 3-pounder guns Also: 12 × ½-pdr swivel guns French service: Upperdeck: 20 x 8-pounder guns Spardeck:4 x 4-pounder guns

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.

The French Navy subsequently salvaged her and then commissioned her in April 1783 after they had repaired her. She served until being deleted from their navy lists at Rochefort in 1786.

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