HMS Amazon, was a 36-gun Amazon-class frigate, built at Rotherhithe in 1795 to a design by Sir William Rule. Carrying a main battery of 18-pounder long guns, she was the first of a class of four frigates. She had a short but eventful career during the French Revolutionary War, which she spent in the Channel and Western Approaches, part of a frigate squadron under Sir Edward Pellew. She was wrecked in Audierne Bay in 1797, following an action on 13 January with the French ship-of-the-line, Droits de l'Homme.
Original profile plan of Amazon and her sister ship, Emerald, built to the same lines and dimensions.
Sir Edward Pellew; whose frigate squadron Amazon spent her entire career in.
Amazon (right) and Indefatigable (left) fighting the Droits de l'Homme (centre), by Léopold Le Guen (1853)
Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth
Admiral Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, GCB was a British naval officer. He fought during the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary Wars, and the Napoleonic Wars. His younger brother Israel Pellew also pursued a naval career.
Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, portrait by James Northcote, 1804
Sir Edward Pellew by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1797
Engraving of Edward Pellew, Lord Exmouth
Painting of the Bombardment of Algiers by George Chambers Sr.