The Cod Wars, Royal Navy Leander Class Frigates HMS Andromeda (F57) 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 Leander Class Frigates operating during the Cod War with Iceland; amazing seamanship by the Royal Navy, The cod wars were a series of disputes between Britain and Iceland running from the 1950s to the 1970s over the rights to fish in Icelandic waters. Although it was never a war in the conventional sense of the word (the massive and well-equipped Royal Navy would have easily defeated the tiny Icelandic Navy), the pe