Amazon-class frigate (1773)

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| Ship caption = Ambuscade (right) fighting {{ship|French corvette|Bayonnaise|1793|2}}}}

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|Builders=*Adams & Barnard, Deptford

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|Built range=1773-1787

|In commission range=1773-1830

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|Total ships completed=18

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|Ship type=32-gun fifth-rate frigate

|Ship tons burthen=689{{small|{{frac|29|94}}}} (bm)

|Ship length=*{{convert|126|ft|6+1/2|in|m|1|abbr=on}} (overall)

  • {{convert|104|ft|7+1/2|in|m|1|abbr=on}} (keel)

|Ship beam={{convert|35|ft|2+1/4|in|m|1|abbr=on}}

|Ship draught={{convert|8|ft|m|1|abbr=on}}

|Ship hold depth={{convert|12|ft|1+1/2|in|m|1|abbr=on}}

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|Ship sail plan=Full-rigged ship

|Ship complement=220

|Ship armament=*Upper deck: 26 × 12-pounder guns

  • QD: 4 × 6-pounder guns + 4 × 18-pounder carronades
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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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