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Nine ships of the
Royal Navy have been named HMS Amazon , after the
mythical female warriors .
HMS Amazon (1745) was a 26-gun
frigate , formerly the French ship Panthère , built in 1744 and captured in 1745. She was sold in 1763.
HMS Amazon (1773) was a 32-gun frigate launched in 1773 and broken up in 1794.
HMS Amazon (1795) was a 36-gun frigate launched in 1795 at
Rotherhithe . She ran aground and was lost in 1797 when
HMS Indefatigable and HMS Amazon defeated the
French ship Droits de l'Homme in 1797.
HMS Amazon (1799) was a 38-gun frigate launched in 1799 at
Woolwich and broken up in 1817.
HMS Amazon (1821) was a 46-gun frigate launched in 1821. She was converted to carry 24 guns in 1844 and sold in 1863.
HMS Amazon (1865) was an
Amazon -class wooden screw
sloop launched in 1865 and sunk on 9 July 1866 in a collision in the
English Channel .
HMS Amazon (1908) , launched in 1908, was a
Tribal-class
destroyer stationed at
Dover, England during the
First World War . She was broken up in 1919.
HMS Amazon (D39) , launched in 1926, was a prototype destroyer, the first new build for the Royal Navy after World War I. She served in the
Second World War , and was broken up in 1948.
HMS Amazon (F169) , launched in 1971, was the first
Type 21 frigate , and the only one not to take part in the
Falklands War . She was sold to
Pakistan in 1993 and renamed Babur .
Battle honours
Ships named Amazon have earned the following
battle honours :
Martinique , 1762
Droits de L'Homme , 1797
Copenhagen , 1801
Belle Poule , 1806
Belgian Coast, 1914−16
Atlantic , 1939−43
Norway , 1940
Malta Convoys , 1942
Arctic , 1942
North Africa , 1942−43
See also