Leander Type 12
| Ships | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ship | Penant | Built | Laid down |
Launch | Comm | DeComm | Fate |
| BATCH 1 | |||||||
| Leander | F109 | Harland and Wolff | 10 Apr 1959 | 28 Jun 1961 | 27 Mar 1963 | 01 Sep 1988 | sunk as target Sep 1989 |
| Ajax | F114 | Cammell Laird | 12 Oct 1959 | 16 Aug 1962 | 10 Dec 1963 | 31 May 1985 | scrapped 1988 |
| Dido | F104 | Yarrow | 2 Dec 1959 | 22 Dec 1961 | 18 Sep 1963 | Sold to New Zealand as HMNZS Southland 18 Jul 1983, decommissioned 1995 and sold for scrap | |
| Penelope | F127 | Vickers Armstrong | 14 Mar 1961 | 17 Aug 1962 | 31 Oct 1963 | Sold to Ecuador in 1991 as Presidente Eloy Alfaro | |
| Aurora | F10 | John Brown | 1 Jun 1961 | 28 Nov 1962 | 9 Apr 1964 | 01 May 1987 | sold to Devonport DML, scrapped Sep 1990 |
| Euryalus | F15 | Scotts | 2 Nov 1961 | 6 Jun 1963 | 16 Sep 1964 | May 1989 | sold to Devonport DML, scrapped Sep 1990 |
| Galatea | F18 | Swan Hunter | 22 Dec 1961 | 23-5-1963 | 25 Apr 1964 | Aug 1986 | sunk as target June 1988 |
| Arethusa | F38 | J Samuel White | 7 Sep 1962 | 5-11-1963 | 24-11-1965 | 04 Apr 1989 | sunk as target 1 Jun 1991 |
| Naiad | F39 | Yarrow | 30 Oct 1962 | 4 Nov 1963 | 15 Mar 1965 | 01 May 1987 | sunk in weapon effect tests 28 Sep 1990 |
| BATCH 2 | |||||||
| Phoebe | F42 | Vickers Armstrong | 3 Jun 1963 | 8-7-1964 | 15 Apr 1966 | 31 Dec 1990 | sold for scrap 13 Oct 1992 |
| Cleopatra | F28 | HMD Devonport | 19 Jun 1963 | 25 Mar 1964 | 4-1-1966 | 01 Jun 1992 | scrapped 1994 |
| Minerva | F45 | Alex Stephens | 25 Jul 1963 | 19 Dec 1964 | 14 May 1966 | 30 Apr 1992 | scrapped 1994 |
| Sirius | F40 | HMD Portsmouth | 9 Aug 1963 | 22 Sep 1964 | 15 Jun 1966 | 27 Feb 1993 | torpedoed as target 30 Sep 1998 |
| Juno | F52 | J Thornycroft | 16 Jul 1964 | 24 Nov 1965 | 18 Jul 1967 | 04 Nov 1992 | scrapped 1995 |
| Argonaught | F56 | Hawthorne Leslie | 27 Nov 1964 | 08 Feb 1966 | 18 Aug 1967 | 31 Mar 1993 | scrapped January 1995 |
| Danae | F47 | HMD Devonport | 16 Dec 1964 | 31 Oct 1965 | 7 Sep 1967 | Sold to Ecuador July 1991 as Morano Valverde | |
| BATCH 3 | |||||||
| Hermoine | F58 | Alex Stephens | 6 Dec 1965 | 26 Apr 1967 | 11 Jul 1969 | 1992 | scrapped 1998 |
| Andromeda | F57 | HMD Portsmouth | 25 Apr 1966 | 24 May 1967 | 2 Dec 1968 | Jun 1993 | sold to India 22 Aug 1995 as Krishna |
| Jupiter | F60 | Yarrow | 3 Oct 1966 | 4 Sep 1967 | 2 Aug 1969 | 22 Aug 1992 | scrapped Sep 1997 |
| Bacchante | F69 | Vickers | 27 Oct 1966 | 29 Feb 1968 | 17 Oct 1969 | Sold to New Zealand early 1982 as HMNZS Wellington, sunk as a reef 13-11-2005 | |
| Charybdis | F75 | Harland & Wolff | 27 Jan 1967 | 28 Feb 1968 | 02 Jun 1969 | 30 Sep 1991 | sunk as a target 11 Jun 1993 |
| Scylla | F71 | HMD Devonport | 17 May 1967 | 08 Aug 1968 | 12 Feb 1970 | 27 Mar 1990 | sunk as an artificial reef 27 Mar 2004 |
| Achilles | F12 | Yarrow | 01 Dec 1967 | 21 Nov 1968 | 08 Jul 1970 | 27 Mar 1990 | sold to Chile Sep 1990 as Ministro Zenteno |
| Diomede | F16 | Yarrow | 30 Jan 1968 | 15 Apr 1969 | 02 Apr 1971 | 31 May 1988 | sold 1988 to Pakistan as Shamsher |
| Apollo | F70 | Yarrow | 01 May 1969 | 15 Oct 1970 | 28 May 1972 | 31 Aug 1988 | sold to Pakistan July 1988 as Zulfiguar |
| Ariadne | F72 | Yarrow | 01 Nove 1969 | 10 Sep 1971 | 10 Feb 1973 | 30 Dec 1992 | sold to Chile in 1992 as General Banquedano, paid off 1998 |
