RN Frigates: Leander Class Improved Type 12
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Batch 3 Broad-Beam Leander Class ASW Frigate HMS Andromeda pictured in the Portland Exercise Area in the 1980s...Built at HMNB Portsmouth and commissioned on December 2nd 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.
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HMS Leander pictured during her visit to Tauranga on November 12th 1966 and with her Wasp at the local airport.
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Leander Class Frigate HMS Sirius pictured c1978.
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On this day [27th March] in 2004, HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander class frigate, was sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall.
It was the first of its kind in Europe and the ship soon became a very popular dive site and a source of study for marine life.
It was the first of its kind in Europe and the ship soon became a very popular dive site and a source of study for marine life.
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Leander Class Frigate HMS Charybdis pictured c1987.
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HMS Penelope ...August 1976
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She was still in the 2nd Frigate (Portland) Squadron in the photos.
Jim
HMS Raleigh 1963 , HMS Collingwood 1963 & 67 , HMS Ark Royal 1964-7, HMS Undaunted 1968-71, HMS Victory (Fleet Maintenance Group) 1971-72, HMS Exmouth 1972-74
JEM, EM, OEM, LOEM, POOEL
Then 28 years in the Fire Brigade
Retired since 2002
JEM, EM, OEM, LOEM, POOEL
Then 28 years in the Fire Brigade
Retired since 2002