Editing Leander-class frigate (section)

==Overseas service==
''Leander''-class frigates were also successfully exported to serve in the [[Royal New Zealand Navy]] and [[Chilean Navy]]; in the latter they were designated as the {{sclass|Condell|frigate|4}}. Further frigates were modelled on the ''Leander''-class frigates and were [[Licence-built|built under licence]] in Australia as the {{sclass2|River|destroyer escort|4}} for the [[Royal Australian Navy]], [[India]] as the {{sclass|Nilgiri|frigate|4||1972}} and the [[Netherlands]] as the {{sclass|Van Speijk|frigate|4}}. Royal Navy ships were sold to the navies of Chile, [[Ecuadorian Navy|Ecuador]], New Zealand ({{HMS|Bacchante|F69|2}} becoming {{HMNZS|Wellington|F69|6}} and {{HMS|Dido|F104|2}} becoming HMNZS ''Southland''), India and [[Pakistan Navy|Pakistan]].

Starting in 1986, the six ''Van Speijk''-class ships were sold to the [[Indonesian Navy]] and renamed the {{sclass|Ahmad Yani|frigate|4}}, five of which are still in service.{{refn|group=Note|{{KRI|Slamet Riyadi|352|6}} was decommissioned on 16 August 2019.}} Pakistan decommissioned the last of its ''Leander''-class frigates, ''Zulfiqar'', in January 2007,<ref name="globalsecurity.org">{{cite web |url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/pakistan/f-shamsher.htm |title=Shamsher Class (UK Leander Type 12) |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=globalsecurity.org |access-date=2 April 2017 }}</ref>  India decommissioned her last ''Leander'' class on 24 May 2012.<ref name=Krishna/>

{{HMNZS|Canterbury|F-421|6}}, the last steam-turbine driven ''Leander''-class frigate in the Royal New Zealand Navy, was decommissioned in Auckland on 31 March 2005 after 33 years operational service.  In 2006 it was announced that the ship was to be [[Sinking ships for wreck diving sites|sunk as a dive attraction]] in the [[Bay of Islands]], and this was carried out on 3 November 2007 at Deep Water Cove. She lies near her sister ship {{HMNZS|Waikato|F55|6}}.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Colledge |first1=J J |last2=Warlow |first2=Ben |date=2010 |title=Ships Of The Royal Navy: A Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WfODMIsqtTQC&pg=PA67 |publisher=Casemate |page=67 |isbn=978-1935149071 }}</ref>