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HMS Andromeda (F57) in 1972
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Andromeda |
Builder | HMNB Portsmouth |
Laid down | 25 May 1966 |
Launched | 24 May 1967 |
Sponsored by | Mrs G Reynolds |
Commissioned | 2 December 1968 |
Decommissioned | June 1993 |
Identification | Pennant number: 57 |
Nickname(s) | "Heinz Variety"[1] |
Fate | Sold to India, 1995 |
India | |
Name | INS Krishna |
Namesake | Krishna River |
Commissioned | 22 August 1995 |
Decommissioned | 24 May 2012 |
Identification | Pennant number: F46 [2] |
Fate | Sunk as a target, 2012 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Leander-class frigate |
Displacement | 3,200 long tons (3,251 t) full load |
Length | 113.4 m (372 ft) |
Beam | 12.5 m (41 ft) |
Draught | 5.8 m (19 ft) |
Propulsion | 2 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers supplying steam to two sets of White-English Electric double-reduction geared turbines to two shafts |
Speed | 28 knots (52 km/h) |
Range | 4,600 nautical miles (8,500 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h) |
Complement | 223 |
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HMS Andromeda was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She was built at HM Dockyard Portsmouth. She was launched on 24 May 1967 and commissioned into the Royal Navy on 2 December 1968. She took part in the Falklands War. She was sold to India in 1995, for use as a training ship, being renamed INS Krishna. She was finally decommissioned in May 2012.