HMS Ruby Prize (1694)

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Entreprenant, HMS Ruby, and Ruby (ship).

History
French Royal Navy EnsignFrance
NameEntreprenante
BuilderBrest
Commissioned1693
Captured7 April 1694
Royal Navy EnsignEngland
NameHMS Ruby Prize
Acquired17 April 1694 by capture
FateSold May 1698
British East India CompanyBritish East India Company
NameRuby
AcquiredMay 1698 by purchase
FateFoundered 1699[Note 1]
General characteristics [2]
Tons burthen4201⁄94, or 450[3] (bm)
Length
  • 108 ft 0 in (32.9 m) (gundeck)
  • 82 ft 2 in (25.0 m) (keel)
Beam31 ft 0 in (9.4 m)
Depth of hold13 ft 6 in (4.1 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement
  • HMS
    • War (abroad):190
    • War (at home):160
    • Peace:120
  • Ruby:90
Armament
  • HMS:
    • Lower deck:18 × 9-pounder guns
    • Upper deck:20 × 6-pounder guns
    • QD:6 × 3-pounder guns
  • Ruby:32 guns[3]

Ruby Prize was the French privateer Entreprenante, commissioned in 1693 at Brest, that HMS Ruby captured in 1694 and that the British Royal Navy named Ruby Prize (or Ruby's Prize), and sold in 1698. Her new owners renamed her Ruby and she left the Downs in 1699 on a voyage to Persia for the EIC. She was lost with all hands later that year at Mayota.

  1. ^ Hackman (2001), p. 42.
  2. ^ Winfield (2010), p. 167.
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