HMS LEANDER
...shown here on Port Phillip Bay Melbourne Vic Australia

Builder: HMNB Devonport

Laid down: 1 August 1928

Launched: 13 July 1929

Commissioned: 23 July 1931

Recommissioned: 27 August 1945

Decommissioned: February 1948

Out of service: loaned to Royal New Zealand Navy 30 April 1937
Identification: Pennant number: 75
Fate: Sold for scrapping 15 December 1949
Scrapped 15 January 1950
Career (New Zealand)
Name: HMNZS Leander
Commissioned: 30 April 1937

Out of service: Repair and refit at Boston 8 May 1944
Identification: Pennant number: 75
Fate: Returned to Royal Navy 27 August 1945
General characteristics
Class & type: Leander-class light cruiser
Displacement: 7,270 tons standard
9,740 tons full load
Length: 554.9 ft (169.1 m)
Beam: 56 ft (17 m)
Draught: 19.1 ft (5.8 m)
Installed power: 72,000 shaft horsepower (54,000 kW)
Propulsion: Four Parsons geared steam turbines
Six boilers
Four shafts
Speed: 32.5 knots (60 km/h)
Range: 5,730 nmi at 13 knots
Complement: 570 officers and enlisted
Armament:
Original configuration:
8[1] × BL 6 inch Mk XXIII naval guns[2]
4 × 4 in guns
12 × 0.5 in machine guns
8 × 21 in torpedo tubes
Aircraft carried: One catapult-launched aircraft
Original type was a Fairey Seafox
catpult and aircraft later replaced with Supermarine Walrus

Photo Credits: The late Allan Green collection Vic Australia

Cheers and GB

Gordy