Dates: 1898 - 1956
Two ships have beeen called HMS Andromeda, the first was built in 1898. A Diadem class cruiser.
She was built at Pembroke Dockyard. In 1913 she was refitted and converted to a training ship, along with this she was renamed HMS Powerful II.
In 1919 she was renamed again HMS Invincible II, she recieved a final name change in 1931 to HMS Defience. She was sold and was broken up in 1956.
The second HMS Andromeda was a Leander class frigate, commissioned in 1968, decommissioned in 1993 after seeing service in Africa, the North Atlantic second Cod War, Cyprus during the Turkish invasion, the Fleet Review for the Queens Silver Jubilee, the Falklands, the persian Gulf and the West Indies.
She was sold to the Indian Navy in 1995, renamed INS Krishna, she is still in service today.
Forces Reunited Forum Posts involving HMS Andromeda
" A FALKLANDS War hero who had a sex change after years of torment has found happiness - by rescuing FERRETS.
Kelly Curthoys - once a sailor called Kenneth - became an emotional wreck from living a double life as a woman in a man’s body.
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" I joined the Royal Navy at the beginning of 1971 at HMS Raleigh and served as a Jack Dusty for nine years leaving from HMS Royal Arthur at the beginning of 1980. It wasn’t my choice to leave as I intended to work my way up to Fleet Chief Pusser and serve at least twenty-seven years but I had put on ..."
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