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|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Amazon''''' was one of six [[Amazon Class Sloop (1865)|''Amazon'' Class wooden screw sloops]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].
|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Amazon''''' was one of six [[Amazon Class Sloop (1865)|''Amazon'' Class wooden screw sloops]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].


==Service==
==Construction & Service==
''Amazon'', along with {{UK-1Pallas}} participated in the first-ever joint celebration of American independence to occur in an English port on 4 July 1866 in Portsmouth Harbour alongside the American steam screwship ''Augusta''.{{ToL|The Loss of the Amazon|5 July, 1866; p. 12}}
 
''Amazon'' left Spithead a "perfectly new ship" capable of nearly 12.5 knots for Nova Scotia to take up service on the North American Station and was lost in a collision with the private screw steamer ''Osprey'' in the English Channel.{{ToL|The Loss of the Amazon|13 July, 1866; p. 6}}


==Captains==
==Captains==
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Latest revision as of 12:28, 22 September 2019

H.M.S. Amazon (1865)
Builder: Pembroke Royal Dockyard[1]
Launched: 23 May, 1865[2]
Collision: 10 July, 1866[3]

H.M.S. Amazon was one of six Amazon Class wooden screw sloops completed for the Royal Navy.

Construction & Service

Amazon, along with Template:UK-1Pallas participated in the first-ever joint celebration of American independence to occur in an English port on 4 July 1866 in Portsmouth Harbour alongside the American steam screwship Augusta.[4]

Amazon left Spithead a "perfectly new ship" capable of nearly 12.5 knots for Nova Scotia to take up service on the North American Station and was lost in a collision with the private screw steamer Osprey in the English Channel.[5]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 55.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 55.
  3. ↑ "The Loss of the Amazon." The Times (London, England), 13 July, 1866; p. 6.
  4. ↑ "The Loss of the Amazon." The Times (London, England), 5 July, 1866; p. 12.
  5. ↑ "The Loss of the Amazon." The Times (London, England), 13 July, 1866; p. 6.


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