HMS Charybdis F75 Leander Class Frigate c1974 Photo Print

HMS Charybdis (F75), a Royal Navy Leander Class frigate, steams through the Mediterranean sea in about 1974, in this black and white photograph of her port side with “F75” large on her hull and her anchor housed at the bow. Her twin gun turret sits on the forecastle. Amidships are her bridge, her tall foremast and her funnel, and the big rectangular aerial of her long-range radar stands on the mainmast behind. Members of her ship’s company stand along the rails at the bow and the stern, and the sky above is a soft, hazy grey. In her early years Charybdis ranged widely. She was guard ship at Gibraltar in 1969, deployed to the Far East and the Pacific in 1970, and was on patrol off Iceland during the Cod War of 1973. Mediterranean patrols like the one in this photograph were a regular part of her programme through the decade, and in 1977 she took her place among the fleet at Spithead for the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Review. In the 1980s she returned to the Gulf on the Armilla Patrol in 1985 and again in 1988. You can read more about the history of HMS Charybdis HERE This print is ideal for those who served in HMS Charybdis in the 1970s, Cod War veterans and anyone with a connection to the Leander Class frigates. Product Details Image Taken: c. 1974 Photographer: U.S. Navy © Public Domain - Restored by Hampshire Prints