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Amazon-class frigate (1773)

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Amazon-class frigate (1773)
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Ambuscade fighting Bayonnaise, by Jean-François Hue
Class overview
Builders:
  • Adams & Barnard, Deptford
  • James Betts, Mistleythorn
  • Joseph Graham, Harwich
  • Robert Batson & Co, Limehouse
  • Rotherhithe
  • Wyatt & Co. Buckler's Hard
Operators: United Kingdom, France
Built: 1773-1787
In commission: 1773-1830
Completed: 18
General characteristics
Type: 32-gun fifth-rate frigate
Tons burthen: 68929⁄94 (bm)
Length:
  • 126 ft 6 1⁄2 in (38.6 m) (overall)
  • 104 ft 7 1⁄2 in (31.9 m) (keel)
Beam: 35 ft 2 1⁄4 in (10.7 m)
Draught: 8 ft (2.4 m)
Depth of hold: 12 ft 1 1⁄2 in (3.7 m)
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Complement: 220
Armament:
  • Upper deck: 26 × 12-pounder guns
  • QD: 4 × 6-pounder guns + 4 × 18-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 2 × 6-pounder guns + 2 × 18-pounder carronades

The Amazon-class frigates of 1773, made up of 32-gun fifth rates with a main battery of 12-pounder guns.

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, Castor, Solebay, Terpsichore and Blonde - were launched in 1779 to 1787

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