RNZN · CL
AfloatLeander-class light cruiser. Cammell Laird of Birkenhead launched her on 1 September 1932 and she was completed on 10 October 1933, then re-commissioned for the New Zealand Division on 31 March 1936. From December 1941 she escorted and supported Allied forces in the South Pacific, was badly damaged off Guadalcanal in January 1943, and in 1945 served with the British Pacific Fleet off the Sakishima Gunto, at Truk, and off Japan. She was not sunk.
| Class | Modified Leander class |
|---|---|
| Type | Light cruiser (CL) |
| Hull | 70 |
| Builder | Cammell Laird, Birkenhead |
| Launched | 1932-09-01 |
| Commissioned | 1933-10-10 |
| Fate | Afloat. Paid off at Chatham on 17 September 1946, sold to India on 5 July 1948 and renamed Delhi, and decommissioned by the Indian Navy on 30 June 1978. Not sunk. |
| Armament (class) | Modified Leander. Four twin 6-inch turrets and two funnels. |
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Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.
The armament line is the class drawing, not a measurement of this hull.
HMNZS Achilles. Australian War Memorial photograph P03626.012. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
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Command
Okinawa
1945-04-01 · Joined Task Force 57 on 22 May 1945 for the last strikes on the Sakishima Gunto during Operation ICEBERG; not sunk
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