French frigate Andromaque (1778)
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| Name: | Andromaque |
| Namesake: | Andromache |
| Ordered: | 29 September 1777 |
| Builder: | Brest |
| Laid down: | August 1777 |
| Launched: | 24 December 1777 |
| In service: | April 1778 |
| Fate: | Scuttled by fire |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Nymphe-class frigate |
| Displacement: | 750 tonnes |
| Length: | 46.9 metres |
| Beam: | 11.9 metres |
| Height: | 5.8 metres |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
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Andromaque was a 40-gun Nymphe-class frigate of the French Navy.
Andromaque was commissioned in Brest in 1778 and took part in the American War of Independence. After an overhaul in which she was coppered in April 1780, she captured the British 20-gun post ship HMS Unicorn on 4 October 1780, off Tortuga. The French Navy took Unicorn into service as La Licorne.
On 21 April 1781, Andromaque landed troops for the Siege of Pensacola, in the squadron under Monteil.
On 20 April 1782, a 10-ship convoy departed Brest escorted by the 74-gun Protecteur and Pégase, and the frigates Indiscrète and Andromaque. At sunset, at the mouth of the English Channel, the convoy met a British force of three 74-gun ships of the line under John Jervis; in the ensuing Action of 20–21 April 1782, Pégase and the 64 Actionaire, armed en flûte, were captured.
Andromaque was decommissioned in November 1791 and lied in reserve at Rochefort, until June 1793, when she was armed again. Then was then tasked with convoy escort duty between Rochefort and La Rochelle, under Captain Renaudin. She had a battle against a ship of the line and four Spanish frigates.
In 1794, Andromaque cruised in the Bay of Biscay under Lieutenant Guillotin. Lieutenant Farjenel took command later that year. In 1795, she crossed the Atlantic to Guadeloupe, and Lieutenant Morel took command.
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