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===Batch 2, navigational training ship conversion=== ''Juno'', commissioned 18 July 1967, was converted to serve as a navigational [[training ship]].<ref name=Hansard14Dec83refitdates/> Work at Rosyth<ref name=Hansard14Dec83refitdates/> began in January 1982 and completed in February 1985.<ref name=Hansard14Jul87c437>[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1987/jul/14/destroyers-and-frigates#S6CV0119P0_19870714_CWA_250 Hansard HC Deb 14 July 1987 vol 119 cc437-40W] Question to the Secretary of State for Defence asking for a list by class the destroyers and frigates presently 438W serving in the Royal Navy showing for each vessel the current age and the dates between which they have undergone major refits, 14 July 1987.</ref> This conversion involved the removal of the Type 965 radar and all of her armament. The flight deck was extended by plating over the mortar well; the STWS 1 torpedo system and two 20 mm guns were installed. ''Juno'' replaced {{HMS|Torquay|F43|6}} in the training role, as well as serving as the trials ship for the Type 2050 sonar.<ref>Marriott, p. 98</ref>
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