page_title: Amazon-class frigate (1773)
hierarchical_section_title: Amazon-class frigate (1773)
caption_attribution_description: English: French corvette Bayonnaise boarding HMS Ambuscade during the Action of 14 December 1798
context_page_description: The Amazon-class frigates of 1773, made up of 32-gun fifth rates with a main battery of 12-pounder guns.
  The class 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
context_section_description: The Amazon-class frigates of 1773, made up of 32-gun fifth rates with a main battery of 12-pounder guns.
  The class 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
caption: Ambuscade fighting Bayonnaise, by Jean-François Hue
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