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'''H.M.S. ''Amazon''''' was a Thornycroft-built prototype destroyer built for the [[Royal Navy]] in the mid 1920s. She and [[Yarrow]]'s [[H.M.S. Ambuscade (1926)|''Ambuscade'']] helped determine the design factors that would inform more significant post-war construction, culminating in the [["A" and "B" Class Destroyer (1929)|"A" and "B" Class Destroyer]]s of 1929-30. | '''H.M.S. ''Amazon''''' was a Thornycroft-built prototype destroyer built for the [[Royal Navy]] in the mid 1920s. She and [[Yarrow]]'s [[H.M.S. Ambuscade (1926)|''Ambuscade'']] helped determine the design factors that would inform more significant post-war construction, culminating in the [["A" and "B" Class Destroyer (1929)|"A" and "B" Class Destroyer]]s of 1929-30. | ||
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==Construction and Service== | ==Construction and Service== |
Revision as of 10:43, 1 August 2017
H.M.S. Amazon was a Thornycroft-built prototype destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the mid 1920s. She and Yarrow's Ambuscade helped determine the design factors that would inform more significant post-war construction, culminating in the "A" and "B" Class Destroyers of 1929-30.
There was an earlier Amazon launched in 1908.
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