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.
HMS Andromeda (F57) in 1972
HMS Andromeda being launched at Portsmouth Royal Dockyard, May 1967.
Andromeda alongside SS Canberra at the end of the Falklands War
The Leander-class, or Type 12I (Improved) frigates, comprising twenty-six vessels, was among the most numerous and long-lived classes of frigate in the Royal Navy's modern history. The class was built in three batches between 1959 and 1973. It had an unusually high public profile, due to the popular BBC television drama series Warship. The Leander silhouette became synonymous with the Royal Navy through the 1960s until the 1980s.
HMS Apollo, 1976
Aerial view of HMS Penelope in 1970, showing the original layout of the class before conversion.
Naiad, an Ikara conversion in 1982
Phoebe, an Exocet conversion, in 1990