HMS Amazon - Definition and Overview

Numerous ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Amazon, after the mythical female warriors.

• Amazon was a 38-gun frigate launched in 1799 at Woolwich and broken up in 1817.
• Amazon, launched 1908, was a Tribal-class destroyer stationed at Dover, England during the First World War. She was broken up in 1919.
• Amazon (D39), launched 1926, was a prototype for the later Tribal class of destroyers and served in the Second World War.
• The most recent Amazon (F169), launched in 1971, was the first Type 21 frigates, and the only one not to take part in the Falklands War. She was sold to Pakistan in 1993 and renamed Babur.