NEW WHITBY FRIGATES
More Advanced Equipment I From the Lonaon Correspondent of "The Press"} LONDON, July 19. The Admiralty has announced that it is inviting tenders for three new Leander class antisubmarine frigates, which are an improvement on the 18 Whitby Class frigates built for the Royal Navy in the last four years. The Leander frigate will be basically similar to the Whitby Class with the same hull, but with more advanced equipment and better interior arrangements. Many of the improvements are apparently based on the alterations specified for the Whitby design by the New Zealand Navy Board for the Dominion’s new frigates H.M.N.Z.S. Otago and H.M.N.Z.S. Taranaki. It is now British policy to replace the . 40mm. Bofors antiaircraft guns in the Whitby Class frigates with Seacat anti-aircraft missiles, short-range ground-to-air weapons. The Otago, now undergoing equipment tests at Portsmouth, has been equipped initially with Bofors guns. Missile installation means modifications for the stowing of these weapons.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29272, 2 August 1960, Page 21
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