HMS ''Andromache'' was a 28-gun
sixth rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a sixth-rate was the designation for small warships mounting between 20 and 28 carriage-mounted guns on a single deck, sometimes with smaller guns on the upper works a ...
launched in 1832. She was assigned to the
North America and West Indies Station
The North America and West Indies Station was a formation or command of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy stationed in North American waters from 1745 to 1956. The North American Station was separate from the Jamaica Station until 1830 when th ...
, based at the
Imperial fortress
Imperial fortress was the designation given in the British Empire to four colonies that were located in strategic positions from each of which Royal Navy squadrons could control the surrounding regions and, between them, much of the planet.
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colony
In modern parlance, a colony is a territory subject to a form of foreign rule. Though dominated by the foreign colonizers, colonies remain separate from the administration of the original country of the colonizers, the ''metropole, metropolit ...
of
Bermuda
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in 1838.
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.
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Sixth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy
Corvettes of the Royal Navy
Victorian-era corvettes of the United Kingdom
1832 ships