Seven ships of the French Navy have borne the name Andromaque in honour of Andromache, wife of Hector, daughter of Eetion, and sister to Podes.
Ships Andromaque (1777), a 40-gun Nymphe-class frigate.Roche, vol. 1, p. 41 Andromaque (1797), a galley, captured from the Venetians. Andromaque (1811), a 44-gun frigate. Andromaque (1841), a 56-gun frigate. (1915), an launched in 1915 and struck in 1926.Roche, vol. 2, p. 39 Andromaque (1939, Q203), an Aurore-class submarine. Never finished Andromaque (1939), an auxiliary patrol boats, formerly the tug Fourmi I.
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