HMS Amazon

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

• Amazon was a 36-gun frigate launched in 1795 at Rotherhithe. She ran aground and was lost in 1797 when Indefatigable and the Amazon successfully defeated the French ship Droits de l'Homme in 1797.
• 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 destroyer, the first new build for the Royal Navy after World War I. She 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.