WORLD OF WARSHIPS HMS ANDROMEDA BATCH 3 LEANDER CLASS GP FRIGATE

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CREDIT: Painting by John Stewart. HMS Andromeda in rough sea.

HMS Andromeda was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She was built at HM Dockyard Portsmouth, the last ship to be built there. She was launched on 24 May 1967 and commissioned into the Royal Navy on 2 December 1968. I was aboard in 1979 - 80. Later, Andromeda took part in the Falklands War and was sold to India in 1995, for use as a training ship, being renamed INS Krishna. She was finally decommissioned in May 2012.

Armament 1968 as built:
1 4.5 inch DP double mount fwd
Quad launcher for SEA CAT AA GM aft
Mk 10 triple barrel LIMBO AS Mortar
1 Wasp ASW helicopter flight deck and hangar

1980 re-fit for Sea Wolf Armament:
4 Exocet surface-to-surface missiles
SeaWolf surface-to-air missiles; two 6 round launchers
2 Bofors 40 mm AA guns
1 Lynx ASW Helicopter