HMS Bacchante (F69)
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.
HMS Bacchante in June 1973 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| 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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