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	Leander class cruiser (1931) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Leander class was a class of eight (including modified Australian Leanders) light cruisers built for the Royal Navy prior to World War II.
		The Leander class was influenced by the York class heavy cruiser, and was an attempt to better provide for the role of commerce protection.
		At the Battle of Kolombagara, Leander was heavily damaged by a Long Lance torpedo, causing many casualties, and sending the ship to repairs for two years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leander_class_cruiser_(1931) (634 words)

	HMS Leander - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Leander (1780) - 4th rate of 53 guns which took part in the Battle of the Nile.
		Leander (75) (1930) - Light cruiser of the Leander class.
		Leander (F109) (1961) - Frigate of the Leander class.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Leander (193 words)

	HMNZS Leander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The HMNZS Leander was a light cruiser which served with the Royal New Zealand Navy during World War II.
		Leander was launched at Devonport on 24 September 1931, and commissioned on 24 March 1933 into the Royal Navy as the HMS Leander.
		Leander was so badly damaged that she took no further part in the war.
	www.tocatch.info /en/HMNZS_Leander.htm (269 words)

	Articles - HMNZS Achilles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		HMNZS Achilles was a Commonwealth cruiser, famous for her part in the Battle of the River Plate.
		She was a Leander class cruiser which served with the Royal New Zealand Navy through World War II.
		Upgraded to Improved Leander class, she was capable of carrying an aircraft, although this was removed before the war.
	www.wathcesa.com /articles/HMNZS_Achilles (541 words)

	HMNZS Waikato Ass'n
		HMNZS Waikato was built by Harland and Wolfe Ltd, Belfast, she was laid down on 10th January 1964, and launched by HRH Princess Alexandra on 18 February 1965.
		She was the first Leander Class frigate to be built for the Royal New Zealand Navy.
		HMNZS Waikato was sunk at Tutukaka on the 25th Nov 2000
	www.geocities.com /thef55 (261 words)

	ModelWarships reveiw
		As Leander straightened out to follow the cruiser St Louis, which minutes previously had followed her, she was rocked by a giant explosion at 1:25am as a torpedo struck her amidships on the port side around Frame 87.
		Leander’s gun director was to the very rear of the bridge, and not as moulded on the Airfix kit, somewhere in the middle.
		Leander was painted a dark grey when she was in the Solomons.
	www.modelwarships.com /reviews/ships/hmnzs/leander/600-mr/leander.html (4303 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Light cruiser HMNZS Leander of the Leander class
		The Royal Navy light-cruiser HMS Leander was loaned to the New Zealand Division from 30 April 1937 until 8 May 1944.
		HMNZS Leander (Capt. R.H. Bevan, RN) sinks the Italian raider Ramb I (3667BRT, Lt.Cdr.
		During the Battle of Kula Gulf, HMNZS Leander is torpedoed by Japanese warships.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/4003.html (207 words)

	HMS Leander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The LEANDER was recaptured by the Russians and restored by the Emperor to the Royal Navy in 1799.
		At this time the LEANDER was operating off the east coast of the United States and it is likely that she took part in the bombardment of Fort Henry near Baltimore (from which the U.S. National Anthem derives).
		The fourth LEANDER was a twin-screw second-class cruiser.
	www.hmsleander.co.uk /Past.htm (730 words)

	NZDF - NAVYS LAST STEAM DRIVEN FRIGATE TO BE FAREWELLED IN STYLE
		HMNZS CANTERBURY starts her Farewell Tour in Timaru on 11 March and will leave her home port of Lyttelton on 21 March in the style expected for a ship of her circa and operational history.
		HMNZS CANTERBURY was launched by Her Royal Highness Princess Anne (the Princess Royal) on 6 May 1970 and was commissioned into the Royal New Zealand Navy on 22 October 1971, and will be retired from active service early 2005.
		HMNZS CANTERBURY is the last of the Leander-class frigates commissioned into service in the Royal New Zealand Navy and her decommissioning in 2005 will mark the end of the steam turbine era.
	www.nzdf.mil.nz /news/media-releases/20050216.htm (420 words)

	RNZN - World War II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		When war was declared, ACHILLES was proceeding to her war station off South America and LEANDER had recently returned from landing a garrison on Fanning Island to protect the international cable station there.
		LEANDER deployed for the Middle East soon after, initially escorting the ships carrying the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.
		LEANDER experienced a number of air attacks, engaged Vichy French warships on the coast of Syria, conducted various bombardments and escorted convoys past Italian bases in Somalia and Abyssinia.
	www.navy.mil.nz /know-your-navy/history/world-war-two.htm (1475 words)

	New Zealand Divewrecks - dive the trail!! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		NZ's last Leander Class Frigate, the former HMNZS Canterbury, is soon to join her retired sister ships, HMNZS Waikato (F55) and HMNZS Wellington (F69), as a major world-class diver attraction and successful artificial reef.
		HMNZS Canterbury was the last of the Leander-class frigates in the Royal New Zealand Navy.
		HMNZS Canterbury was one of two broad beam Leander class frigates operated by the RNZN from 1971 to 2005.
	www.divewreck.co.nz /F69/Canterbury.php (988 words)

	RNZN Portal RNZNA News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		HMNZS Moa was sunk with loss of life at Tulugi Harbour in the Solomon Islands on 7TH April 1943.The five ratings who died were Leading Seaman J.C.O. Moffatt of Tauranga, Able Seaman K. Bailey of Auckland, Leading Stoker H. Crawford, an Englishman, Stoker E.J. Buckeridge of Waikino and Telegraphist C. Duncan of Tafflape.
		Ex Leanders will gather in Auckland on the weekend of the 12 - 13 of July to remember and commemorate the lives that were lost onboard the ship on that fateful day.
		Leander reunion - It was an honour and a privilege to be invited to the church service on Sunday March 16th of the Leander Association (South Island branch) at the Age Concern Centre here in Christchurch.
	www.theships.co.nz /Members/RNZNA.html (1848 words)

	search.com - Leander class frigate
		The Leander class, informally known as the Type 12M, comprising twenty-six frigates, was arguably the most successful and popular class of frigates in the Royal Navy's modern history.
		However, all Leanders in RN service were decommissioned by the early 1990s due to ships' aging design and high crew size, combined with yet another RN manpower crisis and defence cuts.
		HMNZS Canterbury, the last steam-turbine driven Leander class frigate in the Royal New Zealand Navy, decommissioned in Auckland on 31 March 2005 after 33 years operational service.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/Leander_class_frigate (666 words)

	Battle of Kolombangara, July 13, 1943, by Vincent P. O'Hara
		Leander turned wide and caught a torpedo at 0122, suffering severe damage.
		Given the number of torpedoes fired by the Japanese, the Allies were fortunate she was the only ship hit during this portion of the battle.
		Leander had to go all the way to Boston and was under repair for a year.
	www.microworks.net /pacific/battles/kolombangara.htm (990 words)

	Ships Nostalgia - HMNZS Canterbury
		HMNZS Canterbury will sail from Lyttelton for the last time on 21 March for Devonport Naval Base where she is to decommision on 31 March after 34 years service with the Royal New Zealand Navy.
		Foreign built Leanders are still in service with India (Himgiri, Udaygiri, Dunagiri, Taragiri and Vindhyagiri) although these are beginning to pay off and with Indonesia, six former Dutch Leanders of the Van Speijk class, although it is hard to assess their operational condition.
		As for Leander class frigates there are some pictures taken by tha RAN showing a Mk.48 torpedo hits the formar H.M.A.S Yarra i think, after the ship was decommissiond and used as a target.
	www.shipsnostalgia.com /showthread.php?p=4415 (1641 words)

	HMS Achilles profile. Aircraft Carrying Ships Database of the Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945
		HMNZS Leander equipped with Walruses of 720 and 700 sqdns 1939-1942
		HMS LEANDER was built in His Majesty's Dockyard Devonport, England, being the name ship for a class of light cruisers.
		This deployment, prior to the outbreak of hostilities, was in anticipation of a possible repeat of the destruction by German Naval Forces of the transpacific cable link in 1914.
	www.fleetairarmarchive.net /ships/Leander.html (219 words)

	Escorting South Pacific Convoys \| NZETC
		The Leander and Achilles and three United States destroyers, operating as Task Group 12.2, arrived at Vila, New Hebrides, on 4 May 1942, with a convoy of five ships carrying American troops and the material and supplies for the establishment of a forward base.
		Neither the Leander nor the Achilles took part in any of the naval actions about Guadalcanal, but both were actively employed in supply operations during the six months’ campaign.
		On 14 September 1942, the Leander, in company with the United States cruisers Minneapolis and Boise and several destroyers, sailed from Espiritu Santo and next day met a convoy of six transports carrying 5000 United States Marines and their equipment and supplies for Guadalcanal.
	www.nzetc.org /tm/scholarly/tei-WH2-2Epi-c5-WH2-2Epi-d.html (1261 words)

	McGhie Genealogy Website
		The anti-submarine minesweeper HMNZS SOUTH SEAS was sunk in Wel-lington harbour as a result of a collision with the Inter Island steamer WAHINE.
		HMNZS KIWI was damaged when ramming the submarine.
		HMNZS LEANDER was badly damaged by a torpedo in a night action between a US Task Force and a Japanese Naval Force in the Kula Gulf, New Georgia.
	mcghiegen.orcon.net.nz /troop_move.htm (2069 words)

	RNZN Comms Jack Harker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		His other career has been NZ naval publications Well Done, Leander, 1971, HMNZS Achilles, 1980, HMNZS Gambia, 1989, Almost HMNZS Neptune, 1991, Soldier, Sailor, Priest, 1992, The Rockies (the Volunteer Reserve and the minesweepers at war).
		He has written for a decade for NZ Navy News and a written history of the RNZ Navy was published in 2001.
		This version has never before been published and is from the original draft before editing (and removal of several chapters to fit the production requirements) by Collins, the original publishers.
	www.rnzncomms.net.nz /jackharker/JackHarker.html (749 words)

	13 July 1943
		The Allied forces consist of the light cruisers HMNZS Leander, USS Honolulu (CL-48) and USS St. Louis (CL-49) and ten destroyers; the Japanese force consists of the light cruiser HIJMS Jintsu and five destroyers.
		Light cruiser HMNZS LEANDER is also torpedoed and seriously damaged.
		Her Executive officer is Commander Stephen W. Roskill RN, who later wrote the official history of the Royal navy in the war, "The War at Sea".
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/1943/07/13.htm (646 words)

	CMDR Bruce McLennan - Centre for Maritime Policy (CMP) @ UOW
		Following a short period as the Commanding Officer of HMNZS TAUPO (a fishery protection patrol craft) he was posted to the Officers' Training School in Auckland, training new entry Officers.
		In 1987 he was appointed as the Executive Officer in HMNZS WAIKATO (a gun Leander) for her work-up in Australia and Asian deployment, before taking up the position of Staff Officer Operations in Maritime Headquarters in Auckland.
		CMDR McLENNAN joined HMNZS CANTERBURY (a gun Leander) as the Executive Officer in 1990, and after another work-up in Australia deployed to the Mediterranean for the 50 th anniversary of the Battle of Crete.
	www.uow.edu.au /law/cmp/people/bmclennan.html (503 words)

	University News - Communications and Development - University of Canterbury - New Zealand
		She's an A student, but it is her leadership potential and her demonstration of qualities consistent with the Navy's core values – the three Cs – that have earned Dominica Finch the inaugural HMNZS Canterbury Scholarship for 2006.
		This prestigious scholarship was established by the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) last year on the occasion of the decommissioning of the Leander frigate HMNZS Canterbury.
		In addition to receiving the HMNZS Canterbury Scholarship, Dominica was recently awarded the Christchurch Symphony F Stuart-Jones Scholarship, worth $500 to enable her to continue her musical studies while at University.
	www.comsdev.canterbury.ac.nz /news/2006/060317b.shtml (490 words)

	HMNZS LEANDER Personnel. Find Friends from HMNZS LEANDER at ComradesandColleagues.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Here is our current member listing for HMNZS LEANDER.
		This website will help you find out about old colleagues and comrades, friends or family who served in HMNZS LEANDER.
		Listed below are the current members for HMNZS LEANDER of the ROYAL NEW ZEALAND NAVY.
	www.comradesandcolleagues.com /ROYAL_NEW_ZEALAND_NAVY/HMNZS_LEANDER.asp (92 words)

	TS Leander NZSCC, Official Site. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This site was made for the Sea Cadet unit 'TS Leander'.
		TS Leander, a Sea Cadet unit of the New Zealand Cadet Forces, provides an interesting and challenging environment for young people.
		The objective of the Sea Cadet Corps builds in every cadet a sense of patriotism, courage, self-reliance and confidence; those qualitites which will mould good moral character and citizenship.
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/Quarters/7618 (268 words)

	Japanese Navy Ships--Jintsu (Light Cruiser, 1925)
		Louis and HMNZS Leander, and by a destroyer's torpedo, Jintsu broke in two amidships and sank with the loss of nearly 500 of her crew.
		USS Saint Louis (CL-49) and HMNZS Leander firing during the action.
		This is probably the battle's initial engagement, in which the Japanese light cruiser Jintsu was sunk by gunfire and torpedo hits and Leander was damaged by a Japanese torpedo.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-fornv/japan/japsh-j/jintsu.htm (644 words)

	Wrecks. Dive the Tui and Waikato. Dive the wrecks with Dive Tutukaka. Tutukaka, Northland, New Zealand.
		When accompanied by a well qualified wreck guide dive master, this is high adventure diving.
		HMNZS Tui, formerly a US Navy ship, was designed for hydrological survey and submarine hunting spy work and protected New Zealand's anti nuclear protest fleet at Mururua.
		HMNZS Waikato, a Leander class frigate, complete with guns and helicopter hanger.
	www.diving.co.nz /wrecks.htm (140 words)

	Solomons Battles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		At Kula Gulf, Helena was torpedoed and sunk, with 1155 survivors, rendering her unable to participate at the Battle of Kolombangara, where St.Louis and Honolulu fought together with HMNZS Leander, and as the two others, suffered torpedo hits.
		Six nights later, the force, TF 18, reinforced by DesRon 1.2, moved back up the "Slot" from Tulagi and soon after 0100 on the l3th, engaged an enemy force of one light cruiser, JINTSU, and five destroyers in the Battle of Kolombangara.
		In this action there was in fact one Japanese cruiser, the JINTSU, an old (1923) scout cruiser armed with 7-5.5" guns, JINTSU and five destroyers were escorting four destroyer-transports headed for Vila.
	www.ussstlouis.com /solomons.htm (2273 words)

	NZDF - Navy and North Shore City Council Join Forces
		The MOU will be signed by Chief of Navy, Rear Admiral David Ledson, and His Worship the Mayor of North Shore City, Mr George Wood, at 2pm in the Leander Lounge, HMNZS PHILOMEL.
		The MOU further cements the developing partnership between the two organisations, builds on existing joint projects and provides greater focus on issues of mutual interest.
		Media are invited to attend the signing to be held at 2 pm in the Leander Lounge, HMNZS PHILOMEL Wardroom– access via the Calliope Road Gate.
	www.nzdf.mil.nz /news/media-releases/20050803-nansccjf.htm (478 words)

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