HMS Amazon (1773)

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Amazon
Ordered	25 December 1770
Builder	Rotherhithe
Laid down	1771
Launched	1773
Commissioned	1777
Out of service	1784
Fate	Broken up 1794
General characteristics as built
Class and type	32-gun fifth-rate Amazon-class frigate (1773) frigate
Length	126 ft 3 in (38.48 m) (gundeck); 104 ft 1 in (31.72 m) (keel);
Beam	35 ft 1.75 in (10.7125 m)
Draught	8 ft 4 in (2.54 m) (forwards); 13 ft 0 in (3.96 m) (aft);
Depth of hold	12 ft 2 in (3.71 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	220
Armament	Upper deck: 26 × 12-pounder guns; QD: 4 x 6-pounder guns + 4 x 18-pounder carronades; Fc: 2 x 6-pounder guns + 2 × 18-pounder carronades;

HMS Amazon was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, built in the Rotherhithe shipyard in 1773. The French captured her in 1798 but the British recaptured her in 1803. She was broken up in 1810.

From 1777 to 1780 she served with the North American squadron. In 1780, she was wrecked by a hurricane at St. Lucia. She was brought back to Plymouth in 1784 but repairs were never completed, and Amazon was broken up in 1810.^[1]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

Citations

^ Michael Phillips' ships of the old Navy

References

Michael Phillips' ships of the old Navy

[1] Michael Phillips' ships of the old Navy

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