HMS Guadeloupe (1763)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Guadeloupe.

HMS Guadeloupe (or Guadaloupe), 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 was built to the same design as HMS Carysfort, (pictured)
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	Guadeloupe
Acquired	Salvaged
Commissioned	April 1783
Fate	Deleted from navy list in 1786
General characteristics [1]
Class & 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 × 1⁄2-pdr swivel guns French service: Upper deck: 20 × 8-pounder guns Spardeck: 4 × 4-pounder guns

Plan of Guadeloupe in 1763

Guadeloupe served during the American War of Independence. In May 1778 she was under the command of Captain Hugh Robinson.^[2] 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.^[3]

The French Navy subsequently salvaged her and then commissioned her in April 1783 after extensive repairs. She was sailed to Brest. She was ordered on 8 July 1786 at Rochefort to be decommissioned and delisted.^[4][5]