HMS Ruby Prize (1694)

History
France
Name	Entreprenante
Builder	Brest
Commissioned	1693
Captured	7 April 1694
England
Name	HMS Ruby Prize
Acquired	17 April 1694 by capture
Fate	Sold May 1698
British East India Company
Name	Ruby
Acquired	May 1698 by purchase
Fate	Foundered 1699
General characteristics
Tons burthen	4201⁄94, or 450 (bm)
Length	108 ft 0 in (32.9 m) (gundeck); 82 ft 2 in (25.0 m) (keel);
Beam	31 ft 0 in (9.4 m)
Depth of hold	13 ft 6 in (4.1 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-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;

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.

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