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Class overview | |
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Name | Leander class |
Operators | |
Preceded by | |
Succeeded by | Type 21 frigate |
Subclasses | |
Built | 1959–1973 |
In commission | 1963–1993 (Royal Navy) |
Completed | 26 |
Retired | 26 (3 as artificial reefs, 2 as targets) |
General characteristics | |
Type | Frigate |
Displacement |
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Length | 113.4 metres (372 ft) |
Beam | 12.5 metres (41 ft), broad-beamed 13.1 metres (43 ft) |
Draught | 4.5 metres (15 ft) normal, 5.5 metres (18 ft) deep, broad-beamed 5.5 metres (18 ft) (later 5.8 metres (19 ft)) deep |
Propulsion | 2 Babcock & Wilcox oil-fired boilers, geared steam turbines, 22,370 kilowatts (30,000 hp), 2 shafts |
Speed | 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph) |
Range | 7,400 kilometres (4,600 mi; 4,000 nmi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 260 |
Sensors and processing systems | |
Electronic warfare & decoys | ESM system with UAA-8/9 warning and Type 668/669 jamming elements. |
Armament |
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Aircraft carried |
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The Leander-class, or Type 12I (Improved) frigates,[1][2][3] comprising twenty-six vessels, was among the most numerous and long-lived classes of frigate in the Royal Navy's modern history. The class was built in three batches between 1959 and 1973. It had an unusually high public profile, due to the popular BBC television drama series Warship. The Leander silhouette became synonymous with the Royal Navy through the 1960s until the 1980s.
The Leander design or derivatives of it were built for other navies:
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