HMS Andromache

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Andromache, 1781
Type: 5th rate ; Armament 32
Launched on the River Thames : 1781 ; Disposal date or year : 1811
Tons (BM) : 683
Notes:

31 Jan 1797 erroneously engaged an Algerine frigate.

1 Jan 1799 Capt. R. Lawrie. At Portsmouth.

25 Jul 1799 Plymouth, passed up the East India, Jamaica, Lisbon, and Oporto fleets [convoys], under convoy of the Europa, Andromache, and Jamaica.

6 Sep 1799 Portsmouth, departed with the Venus, and the American trade [convoy].

24 Oct 1799 Portsmouth arrived with the Spy sloop and a large convoy from the Downs.

22 Mar 1801 captured a galley off Cuba.

27 Apr 1801 arrived at Halifax during the period 22-27 Apr when the Falmouth packet Duke of Cumberland waited for her mails.

30 Apr 1801 the St Alban's, Cleopatra, Andromache, Pheasant, and Lilly, were at Halifax when the packet Lady Hobart arrived from Falmouth (31 Mar).

20 Jun 1801 when the packet Lady Hobart arrived back at Halifax from New York, en route for England, the Andromache was the only RN vessel in Port.

Circa 10 Dec 1803 is reported at Portsmouth to have been ashore off Cape Hatteras, per last accounts from America, but subsequent reports suggest that, if the news was true, she managed to get off?

May 1805 Hamoaze (Plymouth), refitting in Ordinary