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ROYAL NAVY - UNITED KINGDOM

CRUISERS

ANDROMACHE 6th rate sailing corvettes (1834-1837)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Calliope     Sheerness DYd 1.1831 5.10.1837 11.1837 floating chapel 1855
Andromache     Pembroke DYd 8.1831 27.8.1832 7.2.1834 provision depot 11.1846

 

Displacement normal, t

709bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

39.6 gundeck

Breadth, m

10.8

Draught, m

3.20 hold depth

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

 

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

28 x 1 - 160/11 32pdr 25cwt SBML gunnades

Complement

175

Project history: 28-gun 6th rate corvettes. Sir Robert Seppings design of 1830. Vestal was ordered in 1830 but later cancelled before the kiel was laid. Cleopatra and Carysfort were reordered to other design before they were started.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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