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HMS, HMNZS Leander Laid Down : 8th September 1930 Launched : 24th September 1931 Completed : 24th March 1933 Type : Cruiser Class : Leander Builder : Devonport Country : UK Pennants : 75, C2, C75 Fate : On loan to New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy on 30th April 1937 which, in 1941, became the Royal New Zealand Navy. She was returned to the Royal Navy 27th August 1945. Scrapped 1949. |
She was badly damaged on 13th July 1943, when serving with Task Group 36. The group engaged the Japanese cruiser Jintsu and five of her destroyer escorts. Repairs were undertaken at Aukland then she went to Boston for a full refit. Consequently, she played no further part in the war before being returned to the Royal Navy. Armament: eight 6 inch guns in twin turrets, four 4 inch anti-aircraft guns in single mountings and twelve 0.5 inch machine guns in fours. Eight 21 inch torpedo tubes in quadruple mountings and 1 aircraft. Single 4 inch guns later replaced by four twin mountings. |
His Majesty’s Dockyard Devonport launched this Leander class light cruiser on 24 September 1931 and she entered service in the Royal Navy’s Home Fleet on 24 March 1933. In April 1937 she joined the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy. |
In World War II, HMS LEANDER served initially on trade protection duties in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. On 27 February 1941, she sank the Italian auxiliary cruiser RAMB I off Bombay. She was transferred to the Royal New Zealand Navy on its formation in 1941, becoming HMNZS LEANDER. After serving in the Mediterranean, LEANDER returned to the Pacific Ocean in 1943. |
On 13 July 1943, HMNZS LEANDER was with Rear Admiral Walden Lee Ainsworth's Task Group 36.1 of three light cruisers, LEANDER and US Ships HONOLULU and ST. LOUIS, plus ten destroyers. At 01:00 the Allied ships established radar contact with Japanese cruiser JINTSU near Kolombangara in the Solomon Islands. The JINTSU was accompanied by five destroyers. In the ensuing Battle of Kolombangara, JINTSU was sunk and torpedoes hit all three Allied cruisers and severely damaged them. The LEANDER was so badly damaged that she took no further part in the war. |
After repairs, LEANDER returned to the Royal Navy in 1945 and was involved in the Corfu Incident in October 1946 when two Royal Navy destroyers hit Albanian-laid mines in the Corfu Channel. Hughes Bolkow in Blyth scrapped her, starting on 15 December 1949. |
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8th September 1930 - Laid down at Devonport Dockyard 24th September 1931 - Launched at at Devonport 24th September 1931 - Pennant Number 75 March 1933 - Completed 10th March 1933 - Arrived Palma 23rd March 1933 - Capt. R,R, Turner Assumed Command 23rd March 1933 - Commissioned at Plymouth 24th March 1933 - Completed 7th April 1933 - Sailed Plymouth for Gibraltar 7th April 1933 - Sailed Plymouth for Gibraltar 11th April 1933 - Arrived Gibraltar 1st May 1933 - Sailed Gibraltar 5th May 1933 - Arrived Plymouth 5th June 1933 - Sailed Plymouth for Portland 12th January 1934 - Sailed Plymouth for Arosa bay 15th January 1934 - Arrived Arosa Bay 16th January 1934 - Arrived Arosa Bay 17th January 1934 - Sailed Arosa Bay 26th January 1934 - Sailed Gotenborg for Visby 30th January 1934 - Arrived Antigua 6th February 1934 - Sailed Intigua for Trinidad 6th February 1934 - Sailed Antigua for Trinidad 8th February 1934 - Arrived Trinidad 16th February 1934 - Arrived Barbados 22nd February 1934 - 2nd Cruiser Squadron, Home Fleet 22nd February 1934 - Sailed Barbados for St. Kitts 23rd February 1934 - Arrived St. Kitts from Barbados 26th February 1934 - Sailed St. Kitts for the Azores 8th March 1934 - Arrived the Azores 10th March 1934 - Sailed the Azores 23rd March 1934 - Sailed Gibraltar 27th March 1934 - Arrived Portsmouth 9th May 1934 - Sailed Plymouth for Milford Haven 11th May 1934 - Arrived Milford Haven 21st May 1934 - Sailed Holyhead 22nd May 1934 - Arrived Portland 7th July 1934 - Arrived Stettin 16th July 1934 - Sailed Stettin 20th October 1934 - Arrived Rosyth 2nd November 1934 - Arrived Portland 18th January 1935 - Arrived Arosa Bay 20th January 1935 - Sailed Arosa Bay for the West Indies 16th March 1935 - Arrived Gibraltar 30th April 1935 - Capt. R.R. Turner relinquished Command 30th April 1935 - Commissioned in the 2nd Cruiser Squadron, Home Fleet 30th April 1935 - Capt. A.F.E. Palliser Assumed Command 24th May 1935 - Arrived Scapa Flow 24th June 1935 - Arrived Portland 4th February 1936 - Arrived Gibraltar 30th March 1936 - Sailed Plymouth for Gibraltar 4th April 1936 - Arrived Gibraltar 13th May 1936 - Arrived Gibraltar 5th October 1936 - Arrived Christianos 20th October 1936 - Sailed Santa Cruz for Las Palmas 25th October 1936 - Arrived Santa Cruz, Tenerife April 1937 - Transferred to New Zealand 30th April 1937 - Capt. J.W. Rivett-Carnac in Command 30th April 1937 - Commissioned at Plymouth 19th July 1937 - Arrived Valboa 23rd July 1937 - Sailed Balboa 24th October 1937 - Sailed Cliff Cove, Cunaris Sound for George Sound January 1938 - New Zealand Station 4th April 1938 - Arrived Picton 7th April 1938 - Sailed Picton 8th April 1938 - Arrived Nelson 19th April 1938 - Sailed Wellington for Auckland 9th December 1938 - Arrived Nukualofa and saile for Auckland 30th March 1939 - Sailed Auckland for Autaki 1st April 1939 - Arrived Port Fitzroy 28th July 1939 - Arrived Papeete 30th August 1939 - Sailed Auckland to land troops at Fanning Island, 13th September 1939 - Sailed Fanning Island for Auckland 13th September 1939 - Arrived Fanning Island 6th January 1940 - Arrived Sydney December 1949 - Broken up |
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