Name HMS Guadeloupe Completed 11 July 1764 Construction started 8 May 1759 Displacement 771,100 kg | Laid down 8 May 1759 Commissioned March 1764 Launched 5 December 1763 | |
Namesake Invasion of Guadeloupe (1759) Ordered 19 September 1757 (Williams)29 June 1758 (Plymouth) | ||
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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.
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.