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| Name | Amazon (1821) | Explanation | |
| Type | Fifth rate | ||
| Launched | 15 August 1821 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Sail | ||
| Builders measure | 1078 tons | ||
| Displacement | |||
| Guns | 46 | ||
| Fate | 1863 | ||
| Class | Modified Leda | ||
| Ships book | |||
| Note | 1844 28 gun 6th rate | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| (January 1840) | Out of commission at Sheerness | ||
| 13 November 1844 - 6 April 1848 | Commanded by Captain James John Stopford, Lisbon, and the Mediterranean | ||
| 29 June 1847 - 20 August 1847 | Commanded by Acting Captain James Johnstone McCleverty, Mediterranean | ||
| 26 October 1848 - October 1850 | Commanded by Captain Edward Norwich Troubridge, (later in) East Indies (until he died) | ||
| 29 September 1850 | Commanded by Captain Charles Barker, East Indies | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Tu 28 March 1848 | PLYMOUTH, March 25. Her Majesty’s ship Amazon, 25, Captain James J. Stopford, which arrived yesterday from Malta and Gibraltar, has brought home the gunner, steward, and boy lately belonging to Her Majesty’s steam-ship Avenger, lost on Christmas-day in the Mediterranean. They have been since transferred to the guard-ship.The damage done to Her Majesty's ship Queen two days before the Amazon left Gibraltar is not very extensive. She grounded astern, and her crew having started a quantity of her water and got her provisions forward, she was the next day readily towed off the sand and soft mud by Her Majesty's steam-sloop Polyphemus. The Queen and the Polyphemus were the only British men-of-war in the bay. The Amazon has been out three years and five months. Her crew do not class her among the "good ships," and earnestly desire she may be at once paid off. They complain of too much black listing and flogging. Some of her hands ran from her at Smyrna, others at Barcelona and Carthagena. | ||
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