HMS Andromeda (1897)

Andromeda at anchor at Weihaiwei, China, 1904.
History
United Kingdom
Name	Andromeda
Namesake	Andromeda
Builder	Pembroke Dockyard
Laid down	2 December 1895
Launched	30 April 1897
Completed	5 September 1899
Renamed	Powerful II, 23 September 1913 Impregnable II November 1919 Defiance 20 January 1931
Reclassified	As a training ship, 23 September 1913
Fate	Sold for scrap, 1956
General characteristics
Class and type	Diadem-class protected cruiser
Displacement	11,000 long tons (11,177 t)
Length	435 ft (132.6 m) (p/p)
Beam	69 ft (21.0 m)
Draught	25 ft 6 in (7.8 m)
Installed power	16,500 ihp (12,300 kW) 30 × Belleville boilers
Propulsion	2 shafts 2 × Triple-expansion steam engines
Speed	20.5 kn (38.0 km/h; 23.6 mph)
Complement	677
Armament	16 × single QF 6-inch (152 mm) guns 12 × single QF 12-pdr 3 in (76 mm) 12-cwt guns[Note 1] 3 × single QF 3-pdr 1.9 in (47 mm) Hotchkiss guns 2 × 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour	6 in (152 mm) casemates 4.5–2 in (114–51 mm) decks

HMS Andromeda was one of eight Diadem-class protected cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the 1890s. Upon completion in 1899, the ship was assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet where she helped to escort a royal yacht during its cruise through the Mediterranean Sea. After a refit, she was assigned to the China Station in 1904 and returned home three years later to be reduced to reserve. Andromeda was converted into a training ship in 1913 and remained in that role under various names until 1956. That year she was sold for scrap and broken up in Belgium, the last Pembroke-built ship still afloat.^[1]

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