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HMS Leander was completed in 1963 as the first and name ship of the Leander Class Improved Type 12 General Purpose Frigates. In 1974 the ship was converted for the Anglo-Austrian rocket propelled anti-submarine weapon; Ikara. The design was the most

USS Clark (FFG-11) was the fifth ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry class of guided-missile frigates. The ships were designed in the United States in the mid-1970s as general-purpose escort vessels inexpensive enough to be bought in large quant

HNLMS Kortenaer was in action in the Battle of the Java Sea on 27 February 1942, where she was torpedoed by the Japanese cruiser Haguro. An eyewitness, recorded that “Kortenaer about 700 yards bearing 80° relative was struck on the starboard quarter

The six ‘Roofdier’ class ‘frigates’ were all built in the USA with MDAP funds. They were designed to escort slow coastal convoys in Channel and North Sea areas and were operated as a single squadron by the Royal Netherlands Navy. They proved useful f

The Van Speijk class frigates were equipped with Dutch electronics/sensors. The British Leander design was chosen to enable rapid construction to replace elderly escorts for ASW duties and NATO patrol. The ships were thoroughly modernised in the late

One of a two-ship class assault ships commissioned in 1967. Incorporating a large docking well aft, which could accommodate up to four medium landing craft, while four 30 troop light landing craft could be loaded on davits each side of the superstruc

The Standard or S-frigate (relating to the Standard NATO Frigate concept which they were designed), the Kortenaer class, displayed functional, relatively compact lines. In functional terms. the ships primary role was the same as several other designs