Eight ships of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 have borne the name HMS Andromeda, after the Greek heroine Andromeda

Andromeda (mythology)

Andromeda is a princess from Greek mythology who, as divine punishment for her mother's bragging, the Boast of Cassiopeia, was chained to a rock as a sacrifice to a sea monster. She was saved from death by Perseus, her future husband. Her name is the Latinized form of the Greek Ἀνδρομέδη...

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was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1777 and lost in a hurricane in 1780. was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1784, placed on harbour service from 1808 and broken up in 1811. was a 24-gun sixth rate, previously the American Hannibal. She was captured in 1812 and sold in 1816.

• HMS Andromeda was to have been a sixth rate. She was renamed in 1827 before being launched in 1828. was a 46-gun fifth rate launched in 1829 and sold in 1863. was a Diadem-class
  Diadem class cruiser
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   cruiser
  Cruiser
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   launched in 1897. She later served as a depot and training ship, being renamed HMS Powerful II in 1913, HMS Impregnable II in 1919 and HMS Defiance in 1931. She was broken up in 1956.
• HMS Andromeda was an Anchusa class sloop
  Sloop
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   launched in 1917 for service with the French Navy under the name Andromede. was a Leander-class
  Leander class frigate
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   frigate
  Frigate
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   launched in 1967. She was sold to the Indian Navy
  Indian Navy
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  in 1995 and commissioned as the Krishna.