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A New Beginning - Campaign
Join this new beginning for our ship, be one of the first to place your name, a family name or that of a loved one on a wall of honour which will be created beside the ship.
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a significant piece of naval history.
We are seeking commercial sponsors for the repatriation of the former warship HMS Ambuscade/PNS Tariq from Pakistan to the UK.
Volunteering
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Create a lasting legacy
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HMS Ambuscade from 1746 to the Present day
by Dave Watson
HMS Ambuscade is the name given to eight Royal Navy ships between 1746 and 1993. The Ambuscades were frigates and destroyers, the fleet’s workhorses in almost every major naval conflict – from being the eyes of the fleet in the age of sail, to torpedo attacks at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, to shielding the carriers and transports in the Falklands War. They also patrolled the sea lanes and protected the convoys that fed the nation. This is the story of the ships and the seamen who crewed Ambuscade over nearly three centuries.
The last Ambuscade (a Type 21 frigate) was sold to Pakistan in 1993 and renamed PNS Tariq. In 2023, the Pakistan Navy kindly agreed to donate the ship to the charity Clyde Naval Heritage. The charity aims to bring her back to the Clyde, where she was built, within a museum focusing on the Falklands War. That project inspires this book, and all the profits will be donated to Clyde Naval Heritage.
Click on shop (below) to buy a copy direct from the publisher (UK only) who makes no marketing charge, maximising the proceeds to the charity. The book is also available through your local bookshop (including many countries worldwide), and the Kindle version is available from Amazon.
Rumbuscade
'Rumbuscade', a smooth, hearty Spiced Rum, distilled with 10 spices, perfect with a cola or ginger beer.
£10 from each bottle sold will be donated to the Ambuscade Charity.
HMS Ambuscade - Working in collaboration with the Veterans who served on her, we have already raised more than £1000 for the charity, set up to commemorate and see her resting at her final destination, Scotland.
Ambuscade, launched on 18th January 1973 and was one of eight Type 21 Frigates.
She was commissioned into the Royal Navy at Devonport, 5th September 1975 and 1977 she served with the Nato Squadron, Stanavforlant.
Ambuscade served with distinction in the Falklands War in 1982, as an electronic warfare picket ship to the task force.
some years later, after being sold in the 1990's, along with her six remaining sister ships, Ambuscade is now the only one of her class that remains, and is set to return to her birthplace, on the River Clyde, Scotland.
She will become a fitting tribute to all who have served on her and her sister ships, at The Clyde Naval Heritage Museum.
