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HMS Ajax was a British Leander Class frigate of 2500 tons displacement launched in 1962 and decommissioned in 1985. She was armed with two quad Seacat missile launchers; two 40 mm anti-aircraft guns; one Ikara and one Limbo anti-submarine mortar. She carried a Wasp helicopter and carried a complement of 257.
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HMS Arethusa was a British Leander Class frigate of 2500 tons displacement built by J Samuel White and Company and launched in 1963. She was decommissioned in 1989. She was armed with two quad Seacat missile launchers; two 40 mm anti-aircraft guns; one Ikara and one Limbo anti-submarine mortar. She carried a Wasp helicopter and carried a complement of 257.
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HMS Aurora was a British Leander Class frigate of 2500 tons displacement built by John Brown and launched in 1962. She was decommissioned in 1987 and sold for scrapping in 1988. She was armed with two quad Seacat missile launchers; two 40 mm anti-aircraft guns; one Ikara and one Limbo anti-submarine mortar. She carried a Wasp helicopter and carried a complement of 257.
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The Brisbane is an American built Australian DDG class destroyer built by the Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan, USA. She was launched in 1965 and has a displacement of 3370 tons. Two General Electric double reduction steam turbines provide 70000 shp and a top speed of over 30 knots. She is armed with 40 GDC Pomona Standard SM-1MR surface-to-air missiles, two FMC 5 inch/54 Mk 42 Mod 10 automatic guns, four 12.7 mm machine-guns, six 324 mm Mk 32 Mod 5 (in two triple arrangement) torpedo tubes, taking the Honeywell Mark-46 torpedo. She carries a crew of twenty officers and 309 other ranks. The Brisbane is generally similar to ships of the US Charles F Adams Class, but differs by the addition of a broad deckhouse between the funnels enclosing the Ikara anti-submarine torpedo-carrying missile system.
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HMS Dido was a British Leander Class frigate of 2500 tons displacement built by Yarrow and launched in 1961. She was transferred to the Royal New Zealand Navy in 1983 and renamed the Southland. She was armed with two quad Seacat missile launchers; two 40 mm anti-aircraft guns; one Ikara and one Limbo anti-submarine mortar. She carried a Wasp helicopter and carried a complement of 257.
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HMS Euryalus was a British Leander Class frigate of 2500 tons displacement built by Scotts of Greenock and launched in 1963 and decommissioned in 1989. She was armed with two quad Seacat missile launchers; two 40 mm anti-aircraft guns; one Ikara and one Limbo anti-submarine mortar. She carried a Wasp helicopter and carried a complement of 257.
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HMS Galatea was a British Leander Class frigate of 2500 tons displacement built by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson and launched in 1963. She was decommissioned in 1987 and sold for scrapping in 1988. She was armed with two quad Seacat missile launchers; two 40 mm anti-aircraft guns; one Ikara and one Limbo anti-submarine mortar. She carried a Wasp helicopter and carried a complement of 257. In March 1976 she was rammed by the Icelandic gunboat Baldur, causing bow damage. She was decommissioned in 1987.
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The Hobart is an American built Australian DDG class destroyer built by the Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan, USA. She was launched in 1964 and has a displacement of 3370 tons. Two General Electric double reduction steam turbines provide 70000 shp and a top speed of over 30 knots. She is armed with 40 GDC Pomona Standard SM-1MR surface-to-air missiles, two FMC 5 inch/54 Mk 42 Mod 10 automatic guns, four 12.7 mm machine-guns, six 324 mm Mk 32 Mod 5 (in two triple arrangement) torpedo tubes, taking the Honeywell Mark-46 torpedo. She carries a crew of twenty officers and 309 other ranks. The Hobart is generally similar to ships of the US Charles F Adams Class, but differs by the addition of a broad deckhouse between the funnels enclosing the Ikara anti-submarine torpedo-carrying missile system.
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Ikara is an Australian long-range anti-submarine weapons system, first deployed in the Australian Type 82 guided missile destroyers during the late 1960's. Ikara is a guided rocket carrying an American Type 44 lightweight homing torpedo which is parachuted into the sea near the target when ordered to be released by command from the controlling ship.
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HMS Leander was a British Leander Class frigate of 2500 tons displacement built by Harland and Wolff and launched in 1961. She was decommissioned in 1987. She was armed with two quad Seacat missile launchers; two 40 mm anti-aircraft guns; one Ikara and one Limbo anti-submarine mortar. She carried a Wasp helicopter and carried a complement of 257.
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