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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=UK | Ship flag= | Ship name=HMS Andromeda | Ship ordered=20 January 1781 | Ship builder=John Sutton & Co, Liverpool | Ship laid down=May 1781 | Ship launched=21 April 1784 | Ship acquired= | Ship completed=By May 1788 | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship reclassified= | Ship renamed= | Ship nickname= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship fate=Broken up in September 1811 | Ship notes=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship class=Hermione-class fifth rate frigate | {{fraction|36|94}}}} (bm) | 129|ft|m|abbr=on}} (gundeck)- {{convert|106|ft|9+3/4|in|m|abbr=on}} (keel)
| 35|ft|5+1/2|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship draught= | 12|ft|7|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship sail plan=Full rigged ship | Ship complement=220 | Ship 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
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}} | HMS Andromeda was a 32-gun Hermione-class fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was first commissioned in March 1788, under the command of Captain Prince William Henry, the future King William IV. William Henry was in command until paying her off in July 1789. Andromeda was broken up at Portsmouth in September 1811. References{{refbegin}}- {{cite book |first=Rif|last=Winfield|title=British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates|publisher=Seaforth|location=London|year=2007|isbn=978-1-84415-700-6}}
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