HMS Amazon (1795)

Original profile plan of Amazon and her sister ship, Emerald, built to the same lines and dimensions.
History
Great Britain
NameHMS Amazon
NamesakeAmazons[1]
Ordered24 May 1794
BuilderWells & Co., Rotherhithe
Laid downJune 1794
Launched4 July 1795
Completed25 September 1795 at Deptford Dockyard
CommissionedJuly 1795
FateWrecked, 14 January 1797
General characteristics
TypeAmazon-class fifth-rate frigate
Tons burthen933 6794 bm
Length
  • 143 ft 2.5 in (43.650 m) (gundeck)
  • 119 ft 5.5 in (36.411 m) (keel)
Beam38 ft 4 in (11.68 m)
Depth of hold13 ft 6 in (4.11 m)
PropulsionSails
Complement264
Armament
  • Gundeck: 26 × 18-pounder long guns
  • QD: 8 × 9-pounder long guns + 6 × 32-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 2 × 9-pounder long guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades

HMS Amazon, was a 36-gun Amazon-class frigate, built at Rotherhithe in 1795 to a design by Sir William Rule. Carrying a main battery of 18-pounder long guns, she was the first of a class of four frigates. She had a short but eventful career during the French Revolutionary War, which she spent in the Channel and Western Approaches, part of a frigate squadron under Sir Edward Pellew. She was wrecked in Audierne Bay in 1797, following an action on 13 January with the French ship-of-the-line, Droits de l'Homme.

  1. ^ Manning & Walker p. 79