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HMS Leander was a 50-gun spar-decked frigate (rated in the fourth rate) of the Royal Navy which saw service in the Napoleonic Wars, the War of 1812, and the Second Barbary War. Leander and her near sister HMS Newcastle were a new type of ship in the Royal Navy, being exceptionally large and powerful frigates.
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Leander-class frigates were also successfully exported to serve in the Royal New Zealand Navy and Chilean Navy; in the latter they were designated as the Condell class. Further frigates were modelled on the Leander-class frigates and were built under licence in Australia as the River class for the Royal Australian Navy, India as the Nilgiri ...
HMS Shannon was a Liffey-class steam frigate of the Royal Navy. HMS Shannon. She was originally ordered as a sail driven Leander-class frigate,. but was re-ordered as screw frigate on 4 April 1851. She was built at Portsmouth Dockyard and launched on 24 November 1855. She was completed by 29 December 1856 with her hull having cost £62,759, her ...
She was the first Leander-class frigate to have the wells for Limbo mortars and VDS (dipping sonar) replaced and plated over to give a larger helicopter landing area, so helicopters larger than the original Westland Wasp could land and operate from the ship. A close circuit TV system was also introduced so flight deck operations could be ...
Leander-class cruiser (1882), a four-ship class of protected cruisers operated from 1885 to 1919. Leander-class cruiser (1931), an eight-ship class of light cruisers operational between 1933 and 1978. Leander-class frigate, a class of 26 frigates in service from the mid-1960s until the 1990s.
During the 1970s, Danae was one of the Leander-class frigates used as the fictional "HMS Hero" for the popular TV drama series Warship. The BBC's children's television programme "Blue Peter" featured Warship being filmed at Plymouth Dockyard on board Danae, with Lesley Judd in 1975. Six episodes of Warship were filmed aboard Danae around that time.
The Type 82 was loosely based on the layout of the County-class destroyer and the Type 12I Leander-class frigate (hence the inclusion in the escort Type numbering system.) However the County and Leander designs provided only a limited weapon and command replacement for the war-built cruisers, the last of which had been decommissioned in 1962-65.