HMS Dido (F104)
1963 Type 12I or Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Dido.
HMS Dido was a Royal Navy (RN) Leander-class frigate. Entering service in 1961, Dido was involved in the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation, served with NATO's Standing Naval Force Atlantic on several occasions, and was one of the frigates used for the filming of the drama series Warship.
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HMS Dido in 1983 | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Dido |
Builder | Yarrow Shipbuilders |
Laid down | 2 December 1959 |
Launched | 22 December 1961 |
Commissioned | 18 September 1963 |
Identification | Pennant number: F 104 |
Fate | Sold to New Zealand. |
New Zealand | |
Name | HMNZS Southland |
Commissioned | 18 July 1983 |
Decommissioned | March 1995 |
Fate | Scrapped |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Leander-class frigate |
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Length | 372 ft (113 m) |
Beam | 41 ft (12 m) |
Draught | 19 ft (6 m) |
Propulsion | Two Babcock & Wilcox boilers delivering steam to two sets of White/English Electric geared turbines of 30,000 shp (22,000 kW) on two shafts |
Speed | 28 knots (52 km/h) |
Range | 4,600 nautical miles (8,500 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h) |
Complement | 18 officers and 248 sailors |
Sensors and processing systems |
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Electronic warfare & decoys | CAAIS (Computer Assisted Action Information System) combat information system, ESM system with UAA-8/9 warning and Type 668/669 jamming elements. |
Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 1 × Wasp, later Lynx helicopter |
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Following a defence review at the start of the 1980s, the ship was transferred to the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN), and was recommissioned as HMNZS Southland. Southland remained in service until 1995. After decommissioning the frigate was towed to the Philippines where her boilers were removed, and then sent to India for scrapping.