Amazon-class frigate (1773)
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The Amazon-class frigates of 1773, made up of 32-gun fifth rates with a main battery of 12-pounder guns.{{Cite web|title=British Amazon Class|url=https://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_class&id=201|access-date=2021-12-29|website=threedecks.org}} They were designed by the Surveyor of the Navy, John Williams during his employment by the Admiralty.{{cite web | url=https://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_crewman&id=23268 | title=John Williams (1700-1786) }}
The class comprised eighteen ships; Amazon, Ambuscade and Thetis were launched in 1773; the second batch - Cleopatra, Amphion, Orpheus, Juno, Success, Iphigenia, Andromache, Syren, Iris, Greyhound, Meleager, {{HMS|Castor|1785|2}}, Solebay, Terpsichore and Blonde - were launched in 1779 to 1787.Winfield p. 193
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- {{cite book |first=Rif|last=Winfield|title=British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates|publisher=Seaforth Publishing|year=2008|isbn=978-1-86176-246-7}}
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