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HMS Amazon (1821)
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NameAmazonExplanation
Type5th rate   
Launched15 August 1821
HullWooden
PropulsionSail
Builders measure1078 tons
Displacement 
Guns46
Fate1863
ClassModified Leda
Ships book
Note1844 28 gun 6th rate
Snippets concerning this vessels career
DateEvent
(January 1840)Out of commission at Sheerness
13 November 1844
- 1848		Commanded by Captain James John Stopford, Lisbon, and the Mediterranean
26 October 1848
- October 1850		Commanded by Captain Edward Norwich Troubridge, (later in) East Indies (until he died)
29 September 1850Commanded by Captain Charles Barker, East Indies
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