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	HMS Leander (F109) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Leander (F109) was the nameship of the Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN).
		Leander was launched on the 28th June 1961 and commissioned on the 27th March 1963.
		In June that year, Leander began modernisation that included the removal of her one twin 4.5-in gun which was replaced by the Ikara anti-submarine warfare (ASW) missile launcher.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Leander_(F109) (654 words)

	Hero and Leander - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Leander, a young man from Abydos, on the other side of the strait, fell in love with her, and he would swim every night across the Hellespont to be with her.
		Succumbing to Leander's soft words, and to his argument that Aphrodite, as goddess of love, would scorn the worship of a virgin, Hero allowed him to make love to her.
		Leander is also the subject of Sonnet XXIX by Spanish poet Garcilaso de la Vega of the 16th Century.
	www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Hero_and_Leander (296 words)

	HMS Leander (F109) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HMS Leander (F109) was the nameship of the (Click link for more info and facts about Leander-class) Leander-class frigate of the (Click link for more info and facts about Royal Navy) Royal Navy (RN).
		Leander with the rest of the TG visisted (Port city in southwestern South Africa; the seat of the legislative branch of the government of South Africa) Cape Town, while (Click link for more info and facts about Diomede) Diomede and (Click link for more info and facts about Warspite) Warspite visited Simonstown.
		Leander deployed to the (The largest inland sea; between Europe and Africa and Asia) Mediterranean in 1983 and again in 1985.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/H/HM/HMS_Leander_(F109)3.htm (654 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: Ships (Lar-Lh) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HMS Largo Bay was a British Bay Class anti-aircraft frigate of 1600 tons displacement launched in 1944.
		HMS Leander was a British Leander Class frigate of 2500 tons displacement built by Harland and Wolff and launched in 1961.
		HMS Leeds Castle is a British Castle Class offshore patrol vessel of 1427 tons displacement launched in 1980.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /R92.HTM (2697 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 (189 words)

	Encyclopedia: Leander class frigate
		HMS Charybdis (F75) was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN).
		HMS Ariadne (F72) was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN).
		HMS Jupiter (F60) was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Leander-class-frigate (2146 words)

	Encyclopedia: HMS Leander
		Royal Navy ship names HMS Leander was a fourth rate frigate of the Royal Navy, launched at Chatham on 1 July 1780.
		HMS Leander was a 4th rate frigate of 60 guns of the Royal Navy, launched on 10 November 1813.
		The Leander class was a class of eight (including modified Australian Leanders) light cruisers built for the Royal Navy (RN), named after the character from Greek mythology.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/HMS-Leander (548 words)

	Untitled Document
		Serving on HMS Britannia when it was torpedoed by a German submarine on 9th November 1918.
		HMS Orlando was anchored in Tunis Bay, 3rd November 1864.
		Action May 1812 (HMS Northumberland) drove on shore and destroyed, near the entrance of Lorient, two French frigates (Arienne and Andromaque), and the brig Mamelouck.
	www.angelfire.com /mp/memorials/AMaltalist.htm (4712 words)

	WEM's 1/350 HMS Apollo
		The Leander class frigate was a development of the Royal Navy's already successful Whitby class, or Type 12, frigates.
		She was then followed by a further 25 vessels through the ensuing years, until March 1973 when the final ship, HMS Ariadne, was commisioned.
		Although most of the Leander class received major modifications to their systems and weapons fits throughout their lives, the last four ships remained in their original form due to a change in policy regarding mid-life updates.
	www.internetmodeler.com /1999/june/ships/apollo.htm (424 words)

	Appendix II RECORD OF HMS LEANDER \| NZETC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The first Leander was a fourth rate ship of 1000 tons and mounted 52 guns, her complement being 340.
		1799: Leander was taken from the French by a Russian and Turkish force at the capture of Corfu and was restored to Britain by the Russian Emperor.
		The second Leander was a frigate of 1600 tons, mounted 60 guns, and had a crew of 500.
	www.nzetc.org /tm/scholarly/tei-WH2Navy-a2.html (612 words)

	HMS Leander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HMS Leander was originally ordered as the Rothesay Class frigate HMS Weymouth but was completed as the first Leander Class vessel.
		In December 1975 HMS Leander and HMS Galatea undertook a Cod War Fishery Protection Patrol and on the 6th January she collided with the Icelandic Gunboat "Thor".
		In 1982 HMS Leander and her sistership HMS Euryalus were diverted from the NATO Exercise "Northern Wedding" to go to the aid of the Fish Factory Ship "Ave Maria".
	www.leanders.plus.com /batch1/leander.htm (455 words)

	HMS Leander (1780) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMS Leander (1780) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HMS Leander (1780) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMS Leander (1780).
		HMS Leander was a fourth rate frigate of the Royal Navy, launched at Chatham on 1 July 1780.
		She took part in the Battle of the Nile, where commanded by Captain Thomas Thompson she was able to exploit a gap in the French line and anchor between Peuple Souverain and Franklin and rake both enemy ships while protected from their broadsides.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/HMS-Leander-1780.html (210 words)

	Leander History
		If you have any information on HMS Minerva or the Leander class in general then please add it to our datalogger guestbook fro HMS Minerva - we'll use it to build as complete a picture of her as possible.
		Leander Class vessels also undertook the Armilla Patrol on various occasions, and during the height of the Iran-Iraq war the five Seawolf Leanders made frequent visits to the Persian Gulf region on order to protect British shipping passing through the Straits of Hormuz.
		Leander was originally ordered as the Rothesay Class frigate Weymouth but was completed as the first Leander Class vessel.
	home.btconnect.com /lamontisltd/xt/leanderhistory.htm (6152 words)

	Leander class frigate - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The ships performed excellently in RN service, but they were ageing and manpower intensive, at a time when the RN were suffering yet another manpower crisis, and with defence cuts, all Leanders in RN service were decommissioned by the early 1990s.
		HMS Scylla was sunk 27 March 2004 as an artificial reef off Cornwall.
		HMNZS Canterbury, the last steam-turbine driven Leander class frigate in the Royal New Zealand Navy, will decommission in Auckland on 31 March 2005 after 33 years operational service.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Leander_class_frigate (713 words)

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		HMS LEANDER was built in His Majesty's Dockyard Devonport, England, being the name ship for a class of light cruisers.
		LEANDER was laid down on 8 September 1930, launched on 24 September 1931 and commissioned into the Royal Navy on 23 March 1933.
		LEANDER toured New Zealand ports after arrival from England and over the next two years also participated in exercises in home and Australian waters, as well as undertaking visits to the Pacific Islands.
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/Quarters/7618/history.htm (416 words)

	HMS Leander (F109) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMS Leander (F109) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HMS Leander (F109) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMS Leander (F109).
		She was built by the famous Harland & Wolff of Belfast.
		Leander with the rest of the TG visisted Cape Town, while Diomede and Warspite visited Simonstown.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/HMS-Leander-F109.html (712 words)

	Fourth-rate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Some fourth rates did remain in active service even during the Napoleonic Wars, especially in the shallow North Sea, where the Royal Navy's main opponents were the Baltic powers and the Dutch, whose own fleet consisted mainly of 50 and 64 gun ships.
		However, HMS Leander, 50 guns, was with Horatio Nelson at the Battle of the Nile.
		As late as 1807, fourth rates were active in combat zones, illustrated by the fatal incident between HMS Leopard, 50 guns, and the US frigate Chesapeake, 38 guns, which almost precipitated the War of 1812 five years early!
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/4th_rate (306 words)

	HMS Achilles battle of river plate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HMS Achilles The Leander Class Cruiser HMS Achilles is shown in a new limited edition art prints by Ivan Berryman, showing the action of the battle of The River Plate against the German Pocket battleship Graf Spee.
		Viewed from beneath the blistered guns of the damaged X and Y turrets of her sister HMS Ajax, Achilles come sunder fire from the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee during what was to become known as the Battle of the River Plate on the 13th December 1939.
		HMS Achilles engaging the Graf Spee by Ivan Berryman
	regimental-art.com /hms_achilles.htm (915 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Light cruiser HMS Orion of the Leander class
		The British light cruiser HMS Orion and the Canadian destroyer HMCS Saguenay intercept the German tanker Emmy Friedrich (4372 BRT) in the Yukatan Strait west of Tampico.
		This convoy was escorted by the Anti-Aircraft cruisers HMS Calcutta, HMS Coventry and 4 destroyers.
		While the Mediterranean Fleet was still on the return trip aircraft from HMS Illustrious and HMS Eagle attacked Leros and in the evening of the 14th the British light cruiser HMS Liverpool while south-east off Crete was hit in the bow by a torpedo from an Italian aircraft.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/4005.html (474 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Light cruiser HMS Neptune of the Leander class
		HMS Neptune and HMS Kandahar sank while HMS Aurora was badly and HMS Penelope was lightly damaged.
		HMS Aurora was patched up at Malta before returning home for repairs at Liverpool from April to June 1942.
		HMS Penelope was repaired at Malta but was bombed on 26 March 1942 while still under repair.
	www.uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/4004.html (643 words)

	The sinking of HMS Scylla
		Saturday 27th March 2004, and the decommissoned British frigate HMS Scylla is to be scuttled off the coast of Plymouth.
		HMS Scylla sits at anchor a few minutes before explosive charges rip the bottom out of her.
		HMS Scylla has had a an eventful life, she collided with the Torpoint Ferry in 1973 (!)
	digitalsat.co.uk /hmsscylla.html (397 words)

	hms ajax
		HMS Ajax was a King George V class battleship (one of four ships of the class), built at Scotts' shipyard at Greenock on the River Clyde.
		She was completed in 1913 and saw action at the Battle of Jutland in 1916 and in the Mediterranean and Black Seas in 1919, before being sold for scrap in 1924.
		HMS Ajax was a Leander class light cruiser.
	www.fact-library.com /hms_ajax.html (460 words)

	The Ultimate HMS Leander - American History Information Guide and Reference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Leander (1780) - 4th rate battleship of 53 guns which took part in the Battle of the Nile.
		Leander (1813) - 4th rate battleship of 60 guns.
		Leander (1848) - 4th rate battleship of 50 guns.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/HMS_Leander (144 words)

	The Ultimate HMS Leander (1813) - American History Information Guide and Reference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the War of 1812 she took part in the battle of Fort Henry.
		In the Second Barbary War she was in Admiral Edward Pellew's force that bombarded Algiers in 1816 and forced the Dey to free the Christian slaves in Algiers.
		About 125 of Leander's crew were killed or wounded by the heavy fire from the shore batteries.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/HMS_Leander_%281813%29 (99 words)

	New Zealand Serials - Supermarine Walrus Mk I
		Embarked on HMS Leander in April 1937 and arrived in Auckland on board the ship on 18 August of that year.
		Air tested at Hobsonville on 30 August 1937 and allocated to HMS Leander as a replacement for K8541 in September.
		Taken aboard HMS Leander and disembarked in Australiaduring 1942 but 2 months later was crated up and returned to New Zealand on SS Rimutaka.
	www.adf-serials.com /nz-serials/nz151.shtml (1620 words)

	Ships Figureheads
		It is one of the few cards which depicts a woman 'quelling a storm.' It is also the only card where the figurehead is shown under the water (!) Built in 1843 she sank in 1877 off the Isle of Wight in a squall.
		Card 24 illustrates this fact HMS Calcutta was built as a line-of-battle ship weighing 3590 tons and was built in Bombay in 1831.
		It was not that there were not developments going on, as can be attested by card 16 of the set HMS Warrior which in 1860 had been built in the Thames Ironworks and represented Britain's first armoured ship.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/Franklyn_Roberts/head.htm (1447 words)

	HMS Orion, 1939
		In Dec 1939 as a crew member of HMS Orion (Leander class cruiser) part of British West Indies squadron, we were dispatched from Kingston, Jamaica, to try and intercept the German liner Columbus, which eluded HMS Orion but was interrcepted by the British destroyer Hereward and scuttled by her crew.
		British light cruiser HMS Orion and Canadian destroyer HMCS Saguenay locate German tanker Emmy Friedrich in the Yucatan Channel; British light cruiser HMS Caradoc subsequently intercepts Emmy Friedrich whose crew scuttles her to avoid capture.
		British destroyer HMS Hyperion intercepts German passenger liner Columbus 450 miles east of Cape May, New Jersey; the latter is scuttled to prevent capture.
	www.ww2pacific.com /orion.html (795 words)

	Welcome to Adobe GoLive 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Leander and her sistership Achilles were both transferred from the Royal Navy to the N.Z. Navy in 1936/37.
		As part of her transfer, the original Hawker Osprey floatplane was replaced by a sturdier Supermarine Walrus shown in the picture.
		During this battle Leander was hit by a torpedo and badly damaged.
	www.btinternet.com /~clive.fennessy/fen48.html (185 words)

	NHCRA - PO Tel J. W. B. Phillips RN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		His captain was Charles Wintour, who as commander of HMS Tipperary, and who later lost his life at The Battle of Jutland.
		In June 1917 HMS Plucky was temporarily transferred away from the Grand Fleet and based at Buncrana, Lough Swilly, on Atlantic escort duties.
		As a result of his work, promotion to PO Telegraphist and a posting to HMS Leander based at Scapa Flow occurred in October 1917, where he remained until the cessation of hostilities in 1918.
	www.nhcra-online.org /20c/j_phillips.htm (389 words)

	HMS Leander (1780) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HMS Leander was a (Click link for more info and facts about fourth rate) fourth rate (A United States warship larger than a destroyer and smaller than a cruiser) frigate of the (Click link for more info and facts about Royal Navy) Royal Navy, launched at Chatham on 1 July 1780.
		She took part in the (Click link for more info and facts about Battle of the Nile) Battle of the Nile, where commanded by Captain Thomas Thompson she was able to exploit a gap in the French line and anchor between Peuple Souverain and Franklin and rake both enemy ships while protected from their broadsides.
		She was converted to hospital ship Hygeia in 1813 and sold in 1817.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/H/HM/HMS_Leander_(1780)2.htm (182 words)

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