HMS Amazon (1795)

Original profile plan of Amazon and her sister ship, Emerald, built to the same lines and dimensions.
History
Great Britain
Name	HMS Amazon
Namesake	Amazons[1]
Ordered	24 May 1794
Builder	Wells & Co., Rotherhithe
Laid down	June 1794
Launched	4 July 1795
Completed	25 September 1795 at Deptford Dockyard
Commissioned	July 1795
Fate	Wrecked, 14 January 1797
General characteristics
Type	Amazon-class fifth-rate frigate
Tons burthen	933 67⁄94 bm
Length	143 ft 2.5 in (43.650 m) (gundeck) 119 ft 5.5 in (36.411 m) (keel)
Beam	38 ft 4 in (11.68 m)
Depth of hold	13 ft 6 in (4.11 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Complement	264
Armament	Gundeck: 26 × 18-pounder long guns QD: 8 × 9-pounder long guns + 6 × 32-pounder carronades Fc: 2 × 9-pounder long guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades

HMS Amazon, was a 36-gun Amazon-class frigate, built at Rotherhithe in 1795 to a design by Sir William Rule. Carrying a main battery of 18-pounder long guns, she was the first of a class of four frigates. She had a short but eventful career during the French Revolutionary War, which she spent in the Channel and Western Approaches, part of a frigate squadron under Sir Edward Pellew. She was wrecked in Audierne Bay in 1797, following an action on 13 January with the French ship-of-the-line, Droits de l'Homme.