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; HMS Amazon (1773), HMS Ambuscade (1773) and HMS Thetis (1773) were launched in 1773; the second batch - Cleopatra, Amphion, Orpheus, HMS Juno (1780), HMS Success (1781), Iphigenia, Andromache, Syren, Iris, Greyhound, Meleager, HMS Castor (1785), Solebay, Terpsichore and Blonde - were launched in 1779 to 1787