HMS Andromeda (F57)
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HMS Andromeda as built, 1967.
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 United Kingdom
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| 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
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| Name: | INS Krishna |
| Commissioned: | 22 August 1995 |
| Decommissioned: | 24 May 2012 |
| Identification: | Pennant number: F46 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Leander-class frigate |
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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. She 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.
Andromeda was one of three Leander-class frigates ordered on 12 January 1965, the other two being Hermione and Jupiter. She was laid down at HMNB Portsmouth on 25 May 1966,launched on 24 May 1967 and commissioned on 2 December 1968 with the Pennant number F57.
Andomeda was a Batch 3, "Broad-Beamed" Leander, and as such was 372 feet (113.4 m) long overall and 360 feet (109.7 m) at the waterline, with a beam of 43 feet (13.1 m) and a maximum draught of 19 feet (5.8 m). Displacement was 2,500 long tons (2,500 t) standard and 2,962 long tons (3,010 t) full load. Two oil-fired boilers fed steam at 550 pounds per square inch (3,800 kPa) and 850 °F (454 °C) to a pair of double reduction geared steam turbines that in turn drove two propeller shafts, with the machinery rated at 30,000 shaft horsepower (22,000 kW), giving a speed of 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph).
A twin 4.5-inch (113 mm) Mark 6 gun mount was fitted forward. A single Sea Cat surface-to-air missile launcher was fitted aft (on the Helicopter hangar roof), while two Oerlikon 20mm cannon provided close-in defence. A Limbo anti-submarine mortar was fitted aft to provide a short-range anti-submarine capability, while a hangar and helicopter deck allowed a single Westland Wasp helicopter to be operated, for longer range anti-submarine and anti-surface operations.
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