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HMS Amazon

Numerous ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Amazon, after the mythical female warriors.

An early HMS Amazon (38) was a frigate launched in 1799 at Woolwich and broken up in 1817.

A later HMS Amazon was a Tribal class frigate which was stationed at Dover, England during the First World War. She was broken up in 1919.

Another HMS Amazon was a member of the later Tribal class of destroyers and served in the Second World War.

The most recent HMS Amazon was the first member of the Type 21 class of frigates, and the only one not to take part in the Falklands War. She was sold to Pakistan in 1993 and renamed PNS Babur.

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