Nine ships of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 have been named HMS Amazon, after the mythical female warriors

Amazons

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was a 26-gun frigate

Frigate

A frigate is any of several types of warship, the term having been used for ships of various sizes and roles over the last few centuries.In the 17th century, the term was used for any warship built for speed and maneuverability, the description often used being "frigate-built"...

, formerly the French ship Panthere, captured in 1745. She was sold in 1763. was a 32-gun frigate launched in 1733 and broken up in 1794. was a 36-gun frigate launched in 1795 at Rotherhithe

Rotherhithe

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. She ran aground and was lost in 1797 when and HMS Amazon successfully defeated the French ship Droits de l'Homme in 1797. was a 38-gun frigate launched in 1799 at Woolwich

Woolwich

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 and broken up in 1817. was a 46-gun frigate launched in 1821. She was converted to carry 24 guns in 1844 and sold in 1863. was an Amazon-class

Amazon class sloop

The Amazon class was a class of six screw sloops of wooden construction built for the Royal Navy between 1865 and 1866.-Design:Designed by Edward Reed, the Royal Navy Director of Naval Construction, they were equipped with a ram bow...

 wooden screw sloop

Sloop-of-war

In the 18th and most of the 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. As the rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above, this meant that the term sloop-of-war actually encompassed all the unrated combat vessels including the...

 launched in 1865 and sunk on 10 July 1866 in a collision in the English Channel

English Channel

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., launched in 1908, was a Tribal-class

Tribal class destroyer (1905)

The Tribal or F class was a class of destroyer built for the Royal Navy. Twelve ships were built between 1905 and 1908 and all saw service during World War I, where they saw action in the North Sea and English Channel as part of the 6th Flotilla and Dover Patrols.-Design:The preceding River or E...

 destroyer

Destroyer

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 stationed at Dover, England during the First World War

World War I

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. She was broken up in 1919., launched in 1926, was a prototype destroyer, the first new build for the Royal Navy after World War I. She served in the Second World War, and was broken up in 1948., launched in 1971, was the first Type 21

Type 21 frigate

The Type 21 frigate or Amazon-class frigate was a Royal Navy general-purpose escort designed in the late 1960s, built in the 1970s and that served throughout the 1980s into the 1990s.-History:...

 frigate

Frigate

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, and the only one not to take part in the Falklands War

Falklands War

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. She was sold to Pakistan

Pakistan

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 in 1993 and renamed Babur

PNS Babur

PNS Babur may refer to one of these ships of the Pakistan Navy:, the former HMS Diadem , a of the Royal Navy; sold in to Pakistan in 1956; later renamed Jahangir and converted to a training ship in 1961, the former HMS London , a of the Royal Navy; sold to Pakistan in 1982; decommissioned in 1993...

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