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Originally Posted by Rainbow Six
Thanks for posting, dragoon, this is a useful resource. I think a few of the Leander class frigates are unaccounted for though. The RN had twenty six, seven were sunk, scrapped, or sold to overseas Navies during the 80's, which left 19, all of which suffered the same fate during the 90's. In a v1 timeline it's possible some of those 19 might have remained in service.
It's also missing HMS Endurance (A171) the RN's Antarctic patrol vessel (the original Endurance which fought in the Falklands was withdrawn from service in 1991 and replaced with a new vessel bearing the same name / pennant number). There was also a single type 82 destroyer, HMS Bristol (D23) which was converted to a training ship in 1987.
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Hmmm; Charybdis, Jupiter, Hermione, Cleopatra and Phoebe were all striken in the 1991-92 time frame, replaced by the new Type 22 Batch 3 and Type 23-class frigates, almost on a one-for-one basis. Juno was disarmed and is the new cadet training ship, Bristol was striken in 1991. By all accounts, these ships have been disarmed and are supposed to have been stripped of their radars/sonars and fire control equipment.
Endurance aka the Polar Circle is a unarmed fleet auxiliary. I've haven't listed any of the fleet auxiliaries for any the navies on this project, at least not yet!