French ship Embuscade

Last updated April 02, 2019

Several ships of the French Navy have borne the name Embuscade:

The French Navy, informally "La Royale", is the maritime arm of the French Armed Forces. Dating back to 1624, the French Navy is one of the world's oldest naval forces. It has participated in conflicts around the globe and played a key part in establishing the French colonial empire.

Embuscade (1670), renamed Dangereux in 1677, then restored to Embuscade later in 1677. Re-classed as fireship 1677 and sold in 1688.
Embuscade (1704), captured in May 1707 by the Royal Navy.
Embuscade (1745), captured in 1746 and renamed HMS Ambuscade. She was sold at Deptford in 1762.
Embuscade (1789), a frigate captured in 1799, later renamed HMS Seine when the previous Ambuscade was recaptured in 1803. She was broken up in 1813.
Embuscade (1798), HMS Ambuscade captured by the French corvette Bayonnaise in 1798 and renamed Embuscade. She was recaptured by the British in 1803 and broken up in 1810.
Embuscade (1865), a floating battery stricken in 1885.

HMS Ambuscade was a 40-gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She had formerly been the French ship Embuscade, captured in 1746.

Deptford, an area on the south bank of the River Thames in south-east London, is named after a ford of the River Ravensbourne. From the mid 16th century to the late 19th it was home to Deptford Dockyard, the first of the Royal Dockyards. This was a major shipbuilding dock and attracted Peter the Great to come and study shipbuilding. Deptford and the docks are associated with the knighting of Sir Francis Drake by Queen Elizabeth I aboard the Golden Hind, the legend of Sir Walter Raleigh laying down his cape for Elizabeth, Captain James Cook's third voyage aboard Resolution, and the mysterious murder of Christopher Marlowe in a house along Deptford Strand.

Embuscade ("Ambush") was a 32-gun frigate. She served in the French Navy during the War of the First Coalition before being captured by the British. Renamed Ambuscade and later Seine, she participated in the Napoleonic Wars in the Royal Navy.

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