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RN Frigates: Leander Class World Naval Ships Forums Archive

RN Frigates: Leander Class

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Request to the forum, does anyone have close-up photographs of the VDS arrangement and well on the gun and Ikara Leanders for modelling? Thanks for help provided, Eric

Sorry Eric, we (AJAX) were fitted typical pusser fashion, "for, but not with", VDS)!:rolleyes:

There are definately pics of VDS fitted Leanders on the Forum because I was in an exchange about the fitment only last week... will have to trace my posts and advise:):) Little h

Muchly sorry to mislead... the exchange was about a Tribal Class HMS Gurkha F122 on the thread of the same name and I include the link here. The pic #3 was the pic in question which does show a Towed Array. [URL]http://www.worldnavalships.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=67152&d=1264291711[/URL] and my contribution:- [URL]http://www.worldnavalships.com/forums/showpost.php?p=94725&postcount=34[/URL] There are however pics of Leanders with Towed Array fit on the Forum Little h

pinched just for you
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Will check my photo's although not many are real close-ups, mostly are profile shots. This is the info I found on which ships had them, if there are others please let me know. [B][quote] [B][B]Type 12M Leander Class Batch 1[/B] [/B] [B] [URL="http://web.ukonline.co.uk/aj.cashmore/britain/frigates/type12m/ajax.html"][COLOR=#0066cc]F114 Ajax[/COLOR][/URL] [URL="http://web.ukonline.co.uk/aj.cashmore/britain/frigates/type12m/arethusa.html"][COLOR=#0066cc]F38 Arethusa[/COLOR][/URL] [URL="http://web.ukonline.co.uk/aj.cashmore/britain/frigates/type12m/aurora.html"][COLOR=#0066cc]F10 Aurora[/COLOR][/URL] [URL="http://web.ukonline.co.uk/aj.cashmore/britain/frigates/type12m/dido.html"][COLOR=#0066cc]F104 Dido[/COLOR][/URL] [URL="http://web.ukonline.co.uk/aj.cashmore/britain/frigates/type12m/euryalus.html"][COLOR=#0066cc]F15 Euryalus[/COLOR][/URL] [URL="http://web.ukonline.co.uk/aj.cashmore/britain/frigates/type12m/galatea.html"][COLOR=#0066cc]F18 Galatea[/COLOR][/URL] [URL="http://web.ukonline.co.uk/aj.cashmore/britain/frigates/type12m/leander.html"][B][COLOR=#0066cc]F109 Leander[/COLOR][/B][/URL] [URL="http://web.ukonline.co.uk/aj.cashmore/britain/frigates/type12m/naiad.html"][COLOR=#0066cc]F39 Naiad[/COLOR][/URL] The policy of building specialised frigates was effective, but expensive. The Leanders were built as general purpose designs with standardised weapons and sensors. Accomodation was greatly improved, and the engines were also of a new design, known as Y100. All were built with VDS wells, and all except Ajax, Euryalus and Galatea were fitted with the sonar itself. All the batch 1 ships were refitted with the Ikara AS rocket replacing the 4.5" guns. [/B] [/quote] [B][SIZE=2]Regards[/SIZE][/B] [B][SIZE=2]Alan[/SIZE][/B][/B]

Here's one of Hms Naiad, hope it helps. Regards Alan
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I have plenty such photos of the Leanders VDS well astern and will post them on return to UK, unless you have sufficient by then.

Hi Invincible, Would be keen to see the close up photographs you are referring to, am attempting a Leander model and this is the one area where I am lacking sufficient details and photographic material. Thanks a lot in advance Eric

Thanks Alan, very helpful. Eric

What a nice view of Hermione Big Les, thanks for that one. E

[quote=crabbersnipe;98318]Hi Invincible, Would be keen to see the close up photographs you are referring to, am attempting a Leander model and this is the one area where I am lacking sufficient details and photographic material. Thanks a lot in advance Eric[/quote] Eric, OK will do when I am back in the UK. Will be very interested to see pictures of the completed LEANDER model.

A few VDS wells
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Classic, absolutely fantastic and spot on: just what I needed... Much appreciated, let me return the compliment once the model is finished, but bear with me for considerable lengths of time :-))) Eric

[quote=jbryce1437;98355]A few VDS wells[/quote] Thanks to Little h and Jybrce1437, I now know what the added gear on the stern of Gurkha is, being a sparker and hidden away most of the time don't always know what the added bits are for! Cheers Jack

Was Penlope fitted with a glass port in the tiller flat so the effects of the Agouti system had on her propellers?

This is really an informative thread for us American-type former sailors. I've always thought of the Leanders, in all their variety, to be some of the handsomest ships to have sailed. They look like what they are -- fighting frigates of the old school. Their yard-and-sail ancestors of yesteryear can be right proud of their descendants. To me, the Leanders represented something done exactly right. Conservatively designed and strongly built, with nothing fancy about them (to start) they lasted and were highly modifiable because they were a superb hull and powerplant design. With that as a base, they could be "upgraded" without too much fuss and bother and still remain highly functional due to the fact of having that great strong hull design. In the American navy, the Leander design was probably met most closely by the Fletcher class destroyers, somewhat larger ships, but possessing those same characteristics of hull and powerplant that allowed them to be useful over the long haul, even though that had not been envisioned at first. In fact, the Fletchers were originally thought of as "throwaways" -- burn them out during wartime and scrap them en mass for the newer classes. Didn't quite turn out that way. I think some Fletcher hulls were still in the water in the 1980s, forty years after their design first hit the water. I don't think any modern class of ship has quite come up to the standards of the Leanders in terms of being built for exceptional utility in service. One notes many were grabbed by foreign countries and the Commonwealth nations when they became available. I also get the impression that many of my forum friends here have served aboard these fine ships. :) Regards,

Don.............well put, as 2nd Commission, "The White Tornado" (AJAX) 1965-66, I am amongst those you mention! Actually, I think most of us who served Queen & Country in the 1960's/70's, served in one or other of the Leander Class ships. Easily the best ship I served in, and to my naturally "Humble and non-biased opinion", AJAX was the best Leander!! :D

[quote=crabbersnipe;98109]Request to the forum, does nayone have close-up photographs of the VDS arrangement and well on the gun and Ikara Leanders ? Thanks for help provided, Eric[/quote] Eric, There is an excellent model of Leander herself in Portsmouth naval base. As you know she was an IKARA Leander and here are a few photos of her and one of the stern showing the VDS well. Hope they are useful to you and that your model is progressing well.
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Eric, I have tried a closer shot of the stern but afraid it is not sharp.
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Eric, I have a few more photos and one which gives a sharper view of the stern from a slightly different angle.
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