HMS Amazon was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, armed with a main battery of twenty-six 12 pounders (5.4 kilograms) and launched at Rotherhithe shipyard in 1773.

Amazon was in Samuel Hood's squadron on 29 April 1781, when it engaged the French fleet under François Joseph Paul de Grasse at the Battle of Fort Royal.

After further service in the Leeward Islands and North American waters, Amazon sailed to England, reaching Portsmouth in February 1782, where she paid off.

HMS Amazon was one of the first series of three Amazon-class sailing frigate constructed for the Royal Navy between 1771 and 1773, from a design by John Williams.

[1] Classed as a 32-gun fifth rate, Amazon was armed with a main battery of twenty-six 12 pounders (5.4 kilograms) on her gun deck, four 6 pdr (2.7 kg) on the quarterdeck and two on the forecastle.

[9] Amazon was in Samuel Hood's squadron on 29 April 1781, when it engaged the French fleet under François Joseph Paul de Grasse at the Battle of Fort Royal.

The previous day, Amazon had spotted a superior enemy fleet comprising 19 ships-of-the-line, two two-deckers, several frigates and a large convoy of merchant ships off Point Salines, Grenada.

[11] Several days of sporadic action, in which at one point Amazon was sent to tow Paccahunta out of range, proved indecisive and both fleets retired on 31 April.

[12] Suspecting an attack on Tobago in May 1781, Rodney dispatched a squadron, which included Amazon, under Francis Samuel Drake to aid in its defence.

[8] William Clement Finch, who commanded Amazon during the hurricane of 1780, commissioned John Thomas Serres to paint a set of three pictures recording the events in the Caribbean.