List of ships named Amazone

Amazone or Amazon has been used several times as a name for ships. The name is derived from the Amazons , a mythical people with a matriarchal social order , which is particularly at home in Greek mythology .

Ship list

designation	Ship type	Class / type	Construction year	Shipyard	Owner	period of service	Whereabouts
Amazon	frigate	Amazon class	1795	Wells & Co. , Rotherhithe	Royal Navy	1795-1797	Stranded on January 14, 1797
Amazon^{Receipt ?}	frigate	Amazon class	1799	Woolwich Dockyard , London	Royal Navy	1799-1811	Wrecked in 1817
Amazon^{Receipt ?}	frigate		1821		Royal Navy		Sold in 1863
Amazon	corvette		1843	Carmesins Shipyard , Grabow	Prussian Navy	1844-1861	Lost in a storm in the North Sea in November 1861
Amazon	Paddle steamer		1852	R. & H. Green Ltd. , London	Royal Mail Line	January 2-4, 1852	Sunk on January 4, 1852 after fire
Amazon	Brigantine		1861	Joshua Dewis , Spencer's Island		1861-1867	Renamed Mary Celeste in 1868 , sunk near Haiti around 1884
Amazon^{Receipt ?}	Sloop	Amazon class	1865		Royal Navy		On July 10, 1866 in the English Channel dropped
Amazon^{Receipt ?}	yacht		1885	Arrow Yard , Southampton
Amazon	Freighter		1886	Barclay, Curle and Company , Glasgow	R. Hill & Co.		Stranded September 1, 1908
Amazon	Small cruiser	Gazelle- class	1900	Germania shipyard , Kiel	Imperial Navy	1901-1930	Wrecked in 1954 after being used as a residential hulk
Amazon	Passenger ship		1906	Harland & Wolff , Belfast	Royal Mail Line	1906-1918	Sunk on March 15, 1918
Amazon^{Receipt ?}	destroyer	Tribal class	1908	John I. Thornycroft & Company , Woolston	Royal Navy	1909-1919	Sold for demolition in 1919
Amazon	Ewer		1909	JH Jacobs , moor rain
Amazon	destroyer		1926	Thornycroft, Woolston	Royal Navy	1927-1945	Wrecked in 1949
Amazon^{Receipt ?}	Minesweeper	Ariadne class			Federal Navy	1963-1992
Amazon^{Receipt ?}	frigate	Amazon class	1971	Vosper Thornycroft , Southampton	Royal Navy	1974-1993	To Pakistan sold there as Babur in service
Amazon	Hopper excavator		1997