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HMS ''Andromeda'' was a ship of the protected cruiser in the Royal Navy. She was built at Pembroke Dockyard and launched on 30 April 1897. ==Service history== She served at the Mediterranean Station under the command of Captain John Leslie Burr, who in March 1901 was succeeded by Captain Francis John Foley. In March 1901 she was one of two cruisers to escort , commissioned as a royal yacht for the world tour of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later King George and Queen Mary), from Gibraltar to Malta, and then to Port Said. Captain Christopher Cradock was appointed in command on 24 March 1902, and from June that year she served as flag ship to Rear-Admiral Sir Baldwin Wake Walker, rear-admiral for the ''Cruiser division'' of the Mediterranean Fleet. In May 1902 she visited Palermo to attend festivities in connection with the opening of an Agricultural Exhibition by King Victor Emmanuel. In 1913 she was converted to a training ship and renamed ''Powerful II'' on 23 September 1913. She was later renamed ''Impregnable II'' in November 1919 and finally, HMS ''Defiance'' on 20 January 1931, when she became part of the torpedo school. She was sold and arrived at Burgt, in Belgium, for breaking up on 14 August 1956. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Andromeda (1897)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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