HMS Andromeda (F57)
HMS Andromeda (F57) in 1972 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| 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" |
| Fate | Sold to India, 1995 |
| India | |
| Name | INS Krishna |
| Namesake | Krishna River |
| Commissioned | 22 August 1995 |
| Decommissioned | 24 May 2012 |
| Identification | Pennant number: F46 |
| Fate | Sunk as a target, 2012 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & 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.