HMS Andromache (1832)

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

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.