HMS Andromache (1832)

HMS Andromache was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1832. She was converted to a powder hulk in 1854 and was broken up in 1875.

HMS Imogene and Andromache passing the batteries of the Bocca Tigris in China, 1834
History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Andromache
Ordered: 29 October 1830[1]
Builder: Pembroke Dockyard[1]
Cost: £14,845 plus £7,759 for fitting[1]
Laid down: August 1831[1]
Launched: 27 August 1832[1]
Commissioned: 19 September 1833[1]
Fate:
  • Provision hulk at Plymouth in 1846
  • Powder depot in 1854
  • Broken up at Plymouth in March 1875[1]
General characteristics
Class and type: Andromache-class sixth-rate frigate (later "corvette")
Tons burthen: 717 73/94 bm[1]
Length:
  • 130 ft 0 in (39.6 m) (gundeck)
  • 108 ft 8.75 in (33.1 m) (keel)[1]
Beam: 35 ft 6.75 in (10.8 m)[1]
Depth of hold: 10 ft 6.5 in (3.2 m)[1]
Sail plan: Full-rigged ship
Complement: 175[1]
Armament:
  • Upperdeck: 20 × 32-pounder gunnades
  • Quarterdeck: 6 × 32-pounder gunnades
  • Foc'l'se: 2 × 32-pounder gunnades[1]

She took William Napier to China and participated in the war with China at Canton in 1834.

References

  1. Winfield (2004) p.114
  • Winfield, R.; Lyon, D. (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6.
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