HMS Bacchante (F69)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Bacchante.
HMS Bacchante (F69) was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy. Bacchante was built by Vickers on the Tyne, launched on 29 February 1968 and commissioned on 17 October 1969.
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HMS Bacchante in June 1973 | |
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Bacchante |
Builder | Vickers-Armstrongs |
Laid down | 27 October 1966 |
Launched | 29 February 1968 |
Commissioned | 17 October 1969 |
Decommissioned | 1982 |
Identification | Pennant number: F69 |
Fate | Sold to Royal New Zealand Navy 1982 |
New Zealand | |
Name | Wellington |
Commissioned | 1982 |
Decommissioned | 1999 |
Stricken | 2000 |
Fate | Sunk in Wellington Harbour, New Zealand, 13 November 2005. |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Leander-class frigate |
Displacement | 3,200 long tons (3,251 t) full load |
Length | 113.4 m (372 ft 1 in) |
Beam | 12.5 m (41 ft 0 in) |
Draught | 5.8 m (19 ft 0 in) |
Propulsion | 2 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers supplying steam to two sets of White-English Electric double-reduction geared turbines to two shafts |
Speed | 28 knots (52 km/h) |
Range | 4,600 nautical miles (8,500 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h) |
Complement | 223 |
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Aircraft carried | 1 × Westland Wasp helicopter |
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