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Re: RN Frigates: Leander Class Improved Type 12
Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2023 5:06 am
by Brian James
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.
Re: RN Frigates: Leander Class Improved Type 12
Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2024 3:49 am
by Brian James
HMS Leander pictured during her visit to Tauranga on November 12th 1966 and with her Wasp at the local airport.
Re: RN Frigates: Leander Class Improved Type 12
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2024 5:22 am
by Brian James
Leander Class Frigate HMS Sirius pictured c1978.
Re: RN Frigates: Leander Class Improved Type 12
Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 6:04 pm
by Pelican
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.
Re: RN Frigates: Leander Class Improved Type 12
Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2024 6:34 am
by Brian James
Leander Class Frigate HMS Charybdis pictured c1987.
Re: RN Frigates: Leander Class Improved Type 12
Posted: Tue May 14, 2024 7:03 am
by Brian James
HMS Penelope ...August 1976
Re: RN Frigates: Leander Class Improved Type 12
Posted: Tue May 14, 2024 4:13 pm
by jbryce1437
Brian James wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 7:03 am
HMS Penelope ...August 1976
She was still in the 2nd Frigate (Portland) Squadron in the photos.
Jim
Re: RN Frigates: Leander Class Improved Type 12
Posted: Wed May 22, 2024 4:05 am
by Brian James
Leander Class ASW Frigate HMS Dido pictured at Sydney Cove Passenger Terminal on October 20th 1973...She was sold to the RNZN and commissioned on July 18th 1983 as HMNZS Southland. Decommissioned in 1995, she was towed away by two patrol craft to the Philippines where her boilers were removed for a rubber plantation. She was then towed to Singapore where she was sold to an Indian tug company who took her to Goa beach in India for breaking.