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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.〔Hepper (1994), p.66.〕 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.〔Demerliac (1996), p.69, #429.〕 ==Citations== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Guadeloupe (1763)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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