HMS Andromeda (1784)

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Andromeda
History
Royal Navy EnsignGreat Britain
NameHMS Andromeda
Ordered20 January 1781
BuilderJohn Sutton & Co, Liverpool
Laid downMay 1781
Launched21 April 1784
CompletedBy May 1788
FateBroken up in September 1811
General characteristics [1]
Class and type
fifth rate frigate
Tons burthen71436⁄94 (bm)
Length
  • 129 ft (39.3 m) (gundeck)
  • 106 ft 9+3⁄4 in (32.6 m) (keel)
Beam35 ft 5+1⁄2 in (10.8 m)
Depth of hold12 ft 7 in (3.8 m)
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement220
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

Portsmouth Dockyard where she was broken up
in September 1811.

Construction

Andromeda was a 32-gun, 12-pounder

waist of the ships and as Andromeda was the first ship built to these new specifications the rest of the class was named after her.[2]

Andromeda was ordered to be built at

Plymouth on 16 May 1788 after an almost four-year wait.[1]

Service

She was first

Plymouth Dockyard. She was then sent, under the command of Salisbury again, to join the Evolution, or Experimental, Squadron in the west of the English Channel.[3]

Some time after this Andromeda sailed for the Leeward Islands Station where, in July 1793, Lloyd's List reported that she had recaptured the slave ship Prosperity, Captain Kelsall, which the French privateer Liberty had captured. Andromeda brought Prosperity into Barbados.[7] At the end of the year Andromeda sailed from the Leeward Islands to England under the command of Captain Lord Northesk, where she was paid off. She was then refitted at Plymouth between June and September 1794 and recommissioned under the command of Captain Thomas Sotheby to serve on the Downs Station.[3]

In June 1795 Captain

Newfoundland on 24 May 1796 before returning to serve in the North Sea Fleet primarily off the coast of Scotland.[4] Here she seized the 36-gun Batavian frigate Zefir alongside the sloops HMS Kite and HMS Ranger in the Firth of Forth in March 1798.[3]

Captain Henry Inman assumed command of Andromeda in March 1799, again on the Downs Station and based at Sheerness.[4] On 4 May 1800 Andromeda was firing a salute in Margate Roads when some powder was accidentally set alight and subsequently blew up, blinding fourteen members of the crew.[4] Still on the Downs Station, she participated in the Raid on Dunkirk on 7 July where the British attacked four French frigates with a fleet of fire ships and small boats, capturing one of them, Désirée.[3]

Inman was sent to command the captured French frigate and he was replaced in December by Captain James Bradby who sailed Andromeda again to the Leeward Islands, leaving on 1 December with the Governor of the Leeward Islands

laid up.[4]

Fate

Andromeda spent the rest of her service out of commission at Portsmouth. She was finally broken up in September 1811.[3]

Citations

  1. ^ a b Winfield (2007), p. 1016.
  2. ^ Winfield (2007), p. 1013.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Winfield (2007), p. 1017.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g Phillips, Andromeda (32) (1784). Michael Phillips' Ships of the Old Navy. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
  5. ^ Marshall (1823), p. 9.
  6. ^ Winfield (2007), pp. 1016–17.
  7. hdl:2027/hvd.32044050633098
    . Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  8. ^ Marshall (1824), p. 482.
  9. ^ O'Byrne (1849), p. 612.

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