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History of Broad Beam Leander class | |||||||||
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| 1966-oct-27 | Laid down | Laid down | |||||||
| 1968-feb-29 | Launched | Launched | |||||||
| 1969-feb | Aircraft | Aircraft assigned 829 NAS Wasp HAS.1 XT443 as Bacchante Flt/425 until c Jul 1969 | |||||||
| 1969-oct-17 | Commissioned | Commissioned | |||||||
| 1972-jan | Deployment | Deployment Bermuda area detached from exercise with US Navy and ordered towards British Honduras, as escort for HMS Ark Royal, to deter Guatemalan ambitions. | |||||||
| 1982-jun-20 | Deployment | Deployment  Gibraltar Harbour Departed Gibraltar for 3 month South Atlantic deployment with 829 NAS 052 Flt Wasp HAS.1 XS538 / 425 embarked. | |||||||
| 1982-oct-01 | Decommissioned | Decommissioned | |||||||
| 1982-oct-01 | Fate: transfered | Fate: transfered to New Zealand as HMNZS Wellington | |||||||
History of | |||||||||
| 1982-oct-02 | Commissioned | Commissioned | |||||||
| 1982-oct-02 | Fate: transfered | Fate: transfered ex UK RN HMS Bacchante | |||||||
| 1982-oct-11 | Port Visit | Port Visit  HMNB Portsmouth Delivery departed HMNB Portsmouth 11 Oct, with Wasp HAS.1 NZ3906 on delivery. | |||||||
| 1982-dec | Refit | Refit extended refit in NZ, completed in 1986 | |||||||
| 1986-aug-21 | Commissioned | Commissioned into Royal New Zealand Navy after 3 year refit | |||||||
| 1988-sep-26 | Port Visit | Port Visit  HMAS Kuttabul Fleet Review: Australia Bi-centennial Naval Salute to Sydney for Australian Bi-centennial Fleet Review | |||||||
| 1996 | Refit | Refit refit until Aug 1997, including installation of Phalanx CIWS and enlargement to hangar for Seasprite programme | |||||||
| 1999 | Decommissioned | Decommissioned | |||||||
| 2005-nov-13 | Fate: sunk | Fate: sunk as artificial reef at Island Bay, Cook Strait | |||||||
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