HMS Amazon (1773)

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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Amazon.

John Thomas Serres - The Amazon entering the Harbour of St Lucia.jpg
The Amazon entering the Harbour of St Lucia, a painting by John Thomas Serres
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Amazon
Ordered25 December 1770
BuilderRotherhithe
Laid down1771
Launched1773
Commissioned1777
Out of service1784
FateBroken up 1794
General characteristics as built
Class and type32-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)
Beam35 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 hold12 ft 2 in (3.71 m)
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement220
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]

An officer on board the Hon. William Clement Finch (1753–1794) commissioned Serres to paint a set of pictures recording the events in the Caribbean. Finch the son of Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Aylesford would later end his career as an admiral.[2]

The Amazon in a hurricane
The Amazon shipwrecked

Notes, citations, and references[]

Notes

Citations

  1. ^ Michael Phillips' ships of the old Navy
  2. ^ "William Clement Finch (1753–1794)". Cheffins. Retrieved 1 July 2021.

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