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HMS Andromache (1832)

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Name
  
HMS Andromache

Laid down
  
August 1831

Construction started
  
August 1831

Builder
  
Pembroke Dockyard

Ordered
  
29 October 1830

Commissioned
  
19 September 1833

Launched
  
27 August 1832

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Cost
  
£14,845 plus £7,759 for fitting

Fate
  
Provision hulk at Plymouth in 1846 Powder depot in 1854 Broken up at Plymouth in March 1875

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.

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

References

HMS Andromache (1832) Wikipedia