Name HMS Ruby Laid down 9 September 1772 Tons burthen 1369 (bm) Launched 26 November 1776 | Ordered 30 November 1769 Fate Broken up, 1821 Construction started 9 September 1772 Builder Woolwich Dockyard | |
Class and type Intrepid-class ship of the line | ||
HMS Ruby was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 26 November 1776 at Woolwich.
She was converted to serve as a receiving ship in 1813, and was broken up in 1821.
The British ships Ruby, 64, Captain Michael John Everitt, Aeolus (or Eolus), 32, and the sloop Jamaica, 18, were cruising off Hayti, when on 2 June 1779, in the Bay of Gonave, they fell in with the 36-gun French frigate Prudente, Captain d'Escars. Ruby chased Prudente for some hours, and was much annoyed by the well-directed fire of the enemy's stern-chasers, by which Captain Everitt and a sailor lost their lives. When within easy range of Prudente, at about sunset, Ruby compelled her to strike, with the loss of two killed and three wounded. The British Navy took Prudente into service under the same name.