Amazon-class frigate (1773)

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

It 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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