Ships of the Leander class
Name |
Pennant |
Namesake |
Builder |
Ordered |
Laid down |
Launched |
Commissioned |
Fate |
Leander Group |
Leander |
75 |
Leander of Abydos |
HM Dockyard, Devonport |
18 February 1928 |
1 August 1928 |
13 July 1929 |
23 July 1931 |
Transferred to Royal New Zealand Navy as HMNZS Leander 1941-1945
Broken up at Blyth 1950 |
Orion |
85 |
Orion the Hunter |
HM Dockyard, Devonport |
24 March 1931 |
26 September 1931 |
24 November 1932 |
18 January 1934 |
Broken up at Dalmuir, 1949 |
Neptune |
20 |
Neptune, God of the Sea |
HM Dockyard, Portsmouth |
2 March 1931 |
24 September 1931 |
31 January 1933 |
23 February 1934 |
Sunk in minefield off Tripoli, 19 December 1941 |
Ajax |
22 |
Ajax the Great |
Vickers Armstrong |
1 October 1932 |
7 February 1933 |
1 March 1934 |
12 April 1935 |
Broken up at Newport, 1949 |
Achilles |
70 |
Achilles |
Cammell Laird |
16 February 1931 |
11 June 1931 |
1 September 1932 |
24 March 1936 |
Transferred to Royal New Zealand Navy as HMNZS Achilles 1941-1946
Sold to Indian Navy as HIMS Delhi 1948 |
Amphion Group |
Amphion |
29 |
Amphion of Thebes |
HM Dockyard, Portsmouth |
1 December 1932 |
22 June 1933 |
27 July 1934 |
15 June 1936 |
Sold to Royal Australian Navy as HMAS Perth, 1939
Sunk in torpedo attack, 1 March 1942 |
Apollo |
63 |
Apollo, God of Light |
HM Dockyard, Devonport |
1 March 1933 |
15 August 1933 |
9 October 1934 |
13 January 1936 |
Sold to Royal Australian Navy as HMAS Hobart, 1938
Broken up at Osaka, 1962 |
Sydney
(ex-Phaeton) |
48 |
City of Sydney |
Swan Hunter |
10 February 1933 |
8 July 1933 |
22 September 1934 |
24 September 1935 |
Sunk in surface action, 19 November 1941 |