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&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Wellington_arriving_2.jpg) HMNZS Wellington just before she was decommissioned.
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| History | |
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 New Zealand | |
| Name | HMNZS Wellington |
| Commissioned | 1982 |
| Decommissioned | 1999 |
| Fate | Sunk as dive wreck in 2005 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Leander-class frigate |
| Displacement | 3,200 long tons (3,251 t) full load |
| Length | 113.4 m (372 ft 1 in) |
| Beam | 12.5 m (41 ft 0 in) |
| Draught | 5.8 m (19 ft 0 in) |
| Propulsion | 2 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers supplying steam to two sets of White-English Electric double-reduction geared turbines to two shafts |
| Speed | 28 knots (52 km/h) |
| Range | 4,600 nautical miles (8,500 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h) |
| Complement | 223 |
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| Aircraft carried | 1 × Westland Wasp helicopter |
HMNZS Wellington was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy and the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN). Originally commissioned in 1969 for the Royal Navy as HMS Bacchante, she joined the RNZN in 1982. She was decommissioned in 1999 and sunk in 2005.