HMS Andromeda (1784)

Andromeda
History
Great Britain
Name	HMS Andromeda
Ordered	20 January 1781
Builder	John Sutton & Co, Liverpool
Laid down	May 1781
Launched	21 April 1784
Completed	By May 1788
Fate	Broken up in September 1811
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Hermione-class fifth rate frigate
Tons burthen	71436⁄94 (bm)
Length	129 ft (39.3 m) (gundeck) 106 ft 9+3⁄4 in (32.6 m) (keel)
Beam	35 ft 5+1⁄2 in (10.8 m)
Depth of hold	12 ft 7 in (3.8 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	220
Armament	Upper gundeck: 26 × 12-pounder guns QD: 4 × 6-pounder guns + 4 × 18-pounder carronades Fc: 2 × 6-pounder guns + 2 × 18-pounder carronades

HMS Andromeda was a 32-gun Hermione-class fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was laid down in 1781 and launched in 1784 . She was commissioned for the first time in 1788 when Captain Prince William Henry took command of her and sailed for the West Indies. Prince William Henry paid her off in 1789 and she was not commissioned again until 1790 in response to the Spanish Armament. In 1792 Andromeda joined the Royal Navy's Evolution Squadron in the English Channel before sailing for the Leeward Islands where she stayed until the end of 1793 when Captain Lord Northesk brought her home. She was refitted for much of 1794 before in September joining the Downs Station. Captain William Taylor assumed command in 1795, briefly sailing her to Newfoundland before returning to the North Sea Fleet in 1796. She stayed here for 3 years, seizing the 36-gun Batavian frigate Zefir in the Firth of Forth in March 1798 and participating in the Raid on Dunkirk in July 1800. After another period of service in the Leeward Islands Andromeda returned home at the Peace of Amiens and was laid up at Portsmouth Dockyard where she was broken up in September 1811.