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Amazon, 1821
Type: 5th rate ; Armament 46
Launched : 15 Aug 1821 ;
Disposal date or year : 1863
BM: 1078 tons
Notes:
1 Dec 1818 Reported to be building.
1 Jan 1820 building or ordered to be built, with a circular stern.
1830 Sheerness
1844 6th rate, 24 guns
1846 Barcelona
20 Dec 1848 East Indies
Aug 1849 men from the Amazon went up to Tien Pak in the steamer Canton to look for pirates who had been hiding there when the Medea was last there... - see p. 641-2 www.naval-review.org/issues/1925-4.pdf - see also p. 355 at at www.archive.org/details/royalnavyhistory06clow
Early Oct 1850 At Hong Kong. Captain Trowbridge died.
30 Aug 1851 East Indies
31 Jul 1852 It is reported in a copy of the Straits Times, received at Sydney, that the Amazon had left Singapore for Trincomalee, the Cape and Europe.
1860 Devonport