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The Amazon-class frigates of 1799, made up of 38-gun fifth rates with a main battery of 18-pounder guns, it comprised two ships – Amazon and Hussar. both launched in 1799; The Amazon-class frigates, or Type 21 frigates, comprising eight ships – Amazon, Antelope, Active, Ambuscade, Arrow, Alacrity, Ardent and Avenger – launched from 1971 ...
HMS Amazon during Exercise RIMPAC 86 The Type 21 frigate, or Amazon-class frigate, was a British Royal Navy general-purpose escort that was designed in the late 1960s, built in the 1970s and served throughout the 1980s into the 1990s.
HMS Amazon was the first Type 21 frigate of the Royal Navy. Her keel was laid down at the Vosper Thornycroft shipyard in Southampton , England . The ship suffered a fire in the Far East in 1977, drawing attention to the risk of building warships with aluminium superstructure.
HMS Success was a 32-gun Amazon-class fifth-rate frigate of the British Royal Navy launched in 1781, which served during the American Revolutionary, French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. The French captured her in the Mediterranean on 13 February 1801, but she was recaptured by the British on 2 September.
Amazon was a 36-gun, 18-pounder, Amazon-class frigate built for the Royal Navy to a design by Sir William Rule. Frigates of the period were three-masted, full-rigged ships that carried their main battery on a single, continuous gun deck. They were smaller and faster than ships of the line and primarily intended for raiding, reconnaissance and ...
The Amazon-class frigates of 1773, made up of 32-gun fifth rates with a main battery of 12-pounder guns. [1] They were designed by the Surveyor of the Navy, John Williams during his employment by the Admiralty.
HMS Amazon was one of the first series of three Amazon-class sailing frigate constructed for the Royal Navy between 1771 and 1773, from a design by John Williams.Built by John and William Wells & Co., Amazon was ordered on 25 December 1770 and her keel was laid down in April 1771 at Rotherhithe shipyard.
Hussar was a 38-gun, 18-pounder, fifth-rate Amazon-class frigate. The ship was one of two built to the design, along with the namesake of the class HMS Amazon. The ships were drawn up by the Surveyor of the Navy Sir William Rule, who submitted the design on 19 April 1796.