Frigate named Southland
PA Wellington The second of the two frigates bought from Britain by the Royal New Zealand Navy will be named Southland. Announcing this yesterday the Chief of Naval Staff, Rear-Admiral K. M. Sauli, said the frigate, known as H.M.S. Dido, would be commissioned in the middle of next year. Admiral Sauli said many civic leaders throughout New Zealand had made claims on the new frigate, which had been heartening to see and difficult to set aside.
“I have tried to preserve the balance between the north and south by naming one of the frigates after Wellington and the other after Southland.”
The Dido was commissioned in 1963 as a multipurpose anti-submarine frigate of 2300 tons.
In 1978 she emerged from a three-year refit as a submarine hunter with new equipment, which included the Australian-designed Ikara missile system
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