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; 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.

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