Frigates: Leander Class

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Leander Class ASW Frigate HMNZS Southland..(Ex HMS Dido).
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Leander Class ASW Frigate HMNZS Canterbury pictured at HMNB Devonport,Auckland,NZ,c1983.
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Undated...Leander Class ASW Frigate HMNZS Waikato..Wellington,NZ.
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Leander Class ASW Frigate HMNZS Waikato.....1977.
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Silver Jubilee 1977....HMNZS Canterbury......HMAS Melbourne....HMAS Brisbane.
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HMNZS Waikato pictured at Bluff,March 16th 1990.
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Leander Class ASW Frigate HMNZS Wellington (Ex HMS Bacchante),pictured with sister HMNZS Waikato at Garden Island Dockyard,Sydney during the RAN's Bicentennial Naval Review in October 1988.
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Leander Class ASW Frigate HMNZS Southland (Ex HMS Dido).As a result of the 1981 RN Defence Review, which had recommended the disposal of some older Frigates, the ship was sold to the RNZN, along with sister ship HMS Bacchante. The already 18-year-old Southland was selected mainly to train RNZN personnel on computerised command and control systems, even though the ADWAS 5 system was dated with only 4 screens and talley and a quarter of the processing capacity and screens of the later Leander and T21, C4 CAAIS.It is seen as a dubious purchase,in retrospect, and by some at the time, as an ageing, if recently refitted, 'over specialised ASW Frigate' without any real surface armament or surveillance radar. The acquisition of the second hand Frigate was also in direct conflict with the 1978 NZ Defence Review that decided that future Frigates would be gas turbine powered and steam abandoned as a prime mover for RNZN combat ships.
Diesel powered long range Frigates were also, offered in 1981, HMS Lynx and HMS Lincoln were rejected on account of age and lack of helicopter capability, the partly gas turbine powered HMS Zulu and HMS Norfolk which at least started and could leave port immediately, without 6/8 hours to flash up of the steam boilers were rejected on the basis 'that they were already almost in the scrapyard' (they were later sold to Indonesia and Chile) and excessive manning requirements, although all had 4.5 guns and 965AW radar and in the case of HMS Norfolk, full Link 10/11 USN compatible communications, high range and Exocet missiles.The option of purchasing a second Ikara Leander was available in the general offer after the UK 1981 Defence Review, with HMS Leander, HMS Ajax and in particular HMS Naiad, completed in March 1965, also offered. Given the extremely specialised nature of the Ikara Leanders and their incompatibility with the rather different Ikara systems in the Australian Type 12 Frigates and Charles F. Adams Class Guided Missile Destroyers, the acquisition of two Ikara Leanders would actually have given a real capability, able to test and practice, joint computer age ASW operations. As UK experience and UK Treasury costing already indicated that the 13-year-old Bacchante was too old for cost-containable structural modernisation.
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Westland Wasp of No. 3 Squadron RNZAF in company with Leander Class ASW Frigate HMNZS Waikato.
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An original colour image of Leander Class ASW Frigate HMNZS Canterbury pictured at Bluff, NZ, February 17th 1987.
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