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==Fate== ;Royal Navy {| class="wikitable" |-valign=top ! | [[Pennant number|Pennant]] ! | Name ! | Commissioned ! width="30%"|Fate |-valign=top ! colspan="8" align="center" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" |Batch 1 (Ikara conversion) |-valign=top | | F109 | | [[HMS Leander (F109)|''Leander'']] | | 27 March 1963 <ref name=Janes1963p270/> | | Sunk as target 1989 |-valign=top | | F104 | | [[HMS Dido (F104)|''Dido'']] | | 18 September 1963 <ref name=Janes1963p270/> | | To New Zealand as HMNZS ''Southland'' 1983, paid off 1995 and sold for scrap. Towed to the Philippines to have her boilers removed for a rubber plantation. Then towed to Goa Beach, India, for scrapping. |-valign=top | | F114 | | [[HMS Ajax (F114)|''Ajax'']] | | 10 December 1963 <ref name=Janes1963p270/> | | Scrapped 1988 |-valign=top | | F10 | | [[HMS Aurora (F10)|''Aurora'']] | | 9 April 1964 <ref name=Janes1975/> | | Scrapped 1990 |-valign=top | | F18 | | [[HMS Galatea (F18)|''Galatea'']] | | 25 April 1964 <ref name=Janes1975/> | | Sunk as target 1988 |-valign=top | | F15 | | [[HMS Euryalus (F15)|''Euryalus'']] | | 16 September 1964 <ref name=Janes1975/> | | Sold for scrap 1990 |-valign=top | | F39 | | [[HMS Naiad (F39)|''Naiad'']] | | 15 March 1965 <ref name=Janes1975/> | | Sunk as target 1990 |-valign=top | | F38 | | [[HMS Arethusa (F38)|''Arethusa'']] | | 24 November 1965 <ref name=Janes1975/> | | Sunk as target 1991 |-valign=top ! colspan="8" align="center" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" |Batch 2 (Exocet conversion) |-valign=top | | F127 | | [[HMS Penelope (F127)|''Penelope'']] | | 31 October 1963 <ref name=Janes1963p270/> | | To Ecuador 1991 as ''Presidente Eloy Alfaro''. Decommissioned 2008 and subsequently scrapped. |-valign=top | | F28 | | [[HMS Cleopatra (F28)|''Cleopatra'']] | | 4 January 1966 <ref name=Janes1975/> | | Sold for scrap 1993 |-valign=top | | F42 | | [[HMS Phoebe (F42)|''Phoebe'']] | | 15 April 1966 <ref name=Janes1975/> | | Sold for scrap 1992 |-valign=top | | F45 | | [[HMS Minerva (F45)|''Minerva'']] | | 14 May 1966 <ref name=Janes1975/> | | Decommissioned. March 1992. Sold for scrap 1993 |-valign=top | | F40 | | [[HMS Sirius (F40)|''Sirius'']] | | 15 June 1966 <ref name=Janes1975/> | | Decommissioned 27 February 1993. Sunk as target 1998 |-valign=top | | F56 | | [[HMS Argonaut (F56)|''Argonaut'']] | | 17 August 1967 <ref name=Janes1975/> | | Sold for scrap 1995 |-valign=top | | F47 | | [[HMS Danae (F47)|''Danae'']] | | 7 September 1967 <ref name=Janes1975/> | | To Ecuador 1991 as ''Morán Valverde''.<ref name=Expreso01Dec09/> She was decommissioned in 2008, and put up for sale in December 2009 and scrapped 2010/11 in Andec Dock, Ecuador.<ref name=Expreso01Dec09>[http://www.expreso.ec/ediciones/2009/12/02/nacional/actualidad/marina-subastara-el-moran-valverde/ Expreso, 1 December 2009, ''Marina subastará el Morán Valverde''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091203194755/http://www.expreso.ec/ediciones/2009/12/02/nacional/actualidad/marina-subastara-el-moran-valverde/ |date=3 December 2009 }}</ref> |-valign=top ! colspan="8" align="center" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" |Batch 2 |-valign=top | | F52 | | [[HMS Juno (F52)|''Juno'']] | | 18 July 1967 <ref name=Janes1975/> | | Sold for scrap 1994 |-valign=top ! colspan="8" align="center" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" |Batch 3A / broad-beamed ''Leander'' (Sea Wolf conversion) |-valign=top | | F75 | | [[HMS Charybdis (F75)|''Charybdis'']] | | 2 June 1969 <ref name=Janes1975/> | | Sunk as target 1993 |-valign=top | | F58 | | [[HMS Hermione (F58)|''Hermione'']] | | 11 July 1969 <ref name=Janes1975/> | | Decommissioned 30 June 1992. Sold for scrap 1997 |-valign=top | | F60 | | [[HMS Jupiter (F60)|''Jupiter'']] | | 9 August 1969 <ref name=Janes1975/> | | Sold for scrap 1997 |-valign=top | | F57 | | [[HMS Andromeda (F57)|''Andromeda'']] | | 2 December 1968 <ref name=Janes1975/> | | To India 1995 as training ship, ''Krishna''. Decommissioned 24 May 2012.<ref name=Krishna>{{cite web|url=http://www.kemmannu.com/index.php?action=highlights&type=3256|title= INS Krishna, one of Indian Navy's 1st Training Squadron Ships, decommissioned|publisher=kemmannu.com|access-date=28 May 2012}}</ref> |-valign=top | | F71 | | [[HMS Scylla (F71)|''Scylla'']] | | 12 February 1970 <ref name=Janes1975/> | | Sunk as artificial reef off [[Whitsand Bay]] 2004 |-valign=top ! colspan="8" align="center" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" |Batch 3B / broad-beamed ''Leander'' |-valign=top | | F69 | | [[HMS Bacchante (F69)|''Bacchante'']] | | 17 October 1969 <ref name=Janes1975/> | | To New Zealand 1982 as ''Wellington'', sunk as artificial reef in [[Wellington Harbour]] 2005 |-valign=top | | F12 | | [[HMS Achilles (F12)|''Achilles'']] | | 9 July 1970 <ref name=Janes1975/> | | To Chile 1990 as ''Ministro Zenteno'', in reserve from 2006. Washed out to sea by a tsunami and scuttled, 2010 |-valign=top | | F16 | | [[HMS Diomede (F16)|''Diomede'']] | | 2 April 1971 <ref name=Janes1975/> | | To Pakistan 1988 as ''Shamsher'', retired pre-2007 to salvage spare parts for ''Zulfiqar''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ordersofbattle.darkscape.net/site/history/volume4/432/pn%20frigates%203C.htm |title=Pakistan Navy Warships Part 3C: Leander Frigates |website=www.ordersofbattle.darkscape.net |access-date=14 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719173806/http://www.ordersofbattle.darkscape.net/site/history/volume4/432/pn%20frigates%203C.htm |archive-date=19 July 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> |-valign=top | | F70 | | [[HMS Apollo (F70)|''Apollo'']] | | 28 May 1972 <ref name=Janes1975/> | | To Pakistan 1988 as ''Zulfiquar'', retired from Pakistani service 4 January 2007.<ref name="globalsecurity.org"/> Sunk as target 12 March 2010 |-valign=top | | F72 | | [[HMS Ariadne (F72)|''Ariadne'']] | | 10 February 1973 <ref name=Janes1975/> | | To Chile 1992 as ''General Baquedano'', sunk as target 2004 |}
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