HMS Ambuscade is a retired Type 21 frigate of the Royal Navy.

https://www.shipsnostalgia.com/media/royal-navy.495148/: HMS Ambuscade is a retired Type 21 frigate of the Royal Navy.

She was built by Yarrow Shipbuilders LtdGlasgowScotland. She entered service in 1975. Ambuscade took part in the Falklands War of 1982.

Ambuscade was sold to Pakistan in 1993 and served their navy as PNS Tariq until 2023.

Type 21 FrigateHMS Ambuscade, at the dock in the South Yard of the Royal Naval Dockyard on the island of Ireland in the British Overseas Territory, and former Imperial fortress, of Bermuda, which had been the base of the America and West Indies Station. Most of the Dockyard had been closed in 1951, but the Royal Navy continued to operate reduced base, “HMS Malabar” (HM Naval Base Bermuda), from the South Yard. HMS Ambuscade has since been sold to the navy of Pakistan, which has renamed her Tariq.


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