SMS Amazone (1843)

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SMS Amazone
Career (Prussia) Preußische Marine Ensign
Name: SMS Amazone
Builder: Carmesins Werft, Stettin, Germany
Laid down: 1841
Launched: 24 June 1843
Fate: Sunk 14 November 1861 off the coast of the Netherlands
General characteristics
Displacement: 390 tons
Length: 33 metres (108 ft)
Beam: 9 metres (30 ft)
Draft: 3.1 metres (10 ft)
Complement: 143 men

SMS Amazone was a three-masted sail corvette (caravel) of the Prussian Navy (Preußische Marine). Her keel was laid in 1841 and she was launched on 24 June 1843.

Amazone sank on 14 November 1861, most likely by accident, off the coast of the Netherlands.

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