French frigate Amazone (1778)
Action between Amazone (foreground) and HMS Santa Margarita, by Robert Dodd | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| France | |
| Name | Amazone |
| Namesake | Amazons |
| Builder | Saint Malo, Guillemant Dépêches and Fromy Dupuy upon plans by Léon-Michel Guignace |
| Laid down | August 1777 |
| Launched | 11 May 1778 |
| Completed | July 1778 |
| Fate | Wrecked 1797 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Iphigénie-class frigate |
| Displacement | ~1150 tonnes |
| Length | 44.2 metres |
| Beam | 11.2 metres |
| Draught | 4.9 metres |
| Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
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Amazone was a 32-gun Iphigénie-class frigate of the French Navy. She was the second ship of the French Navy to receive a copper sheathing in 1778. She served in the War of American Independence under Captain Lapérouse, and later in the French Revolutionary Wars.