HMS Hussar (1763)

Hussar
History
Great Britain
Name	HMS Hussar
Ordered	30 January 1762
Builder	Thomas Inwood, Rotherhithe, England
Laid down	1 April 1762
Launched	26 August 1763
Completed	7 November 1763 at Deptford Dockyard
Commissioned	August 1763
Fate	Ran aground in New York, 23 November 1780
General characteristics
Class and type	Mermaid-class frigate
Tons burthen	627 64⁄94 (bm)
Length	124 ft 4 in (37.9 m) (gundeck) 103 ft 8+1⁄2 in (31.6 m) (keel)
Beam	33 ft 10+3⁄8 in (10.3 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	200
Armament	Upper deck: 24 × 9-pounder (4 kg) cannon, QD: 4 × 3-pounder (1.4 kg) cannon + 12 swivel guns.

HMS Hussar was a sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, built in England in 1761–63. She was a 28-gun ship of the Mermaid class, designed by Sir Thomas Slade. She was wrecked at New York in 1780.

In early 2013, a cannon from Hussar was discovered stored in a building in New York's Central Park still loaded with live gunpowder and shot.