Episodes & Studies Volume 2

Fourth Leander

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Fourth Leander

Built 1882. Second class cruiser of 4000 tons, mounting ten 6-inch guns and four torpedo-tubes. In 1900 she did good work during a revolution in Panama in protecting the lives and property of foreign residents. In 1904 she was converted into a destroyer depot ship and in that capacity served at Scapa Flow during the First World War.

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Title: Leander

Author: S. D. Waters

In: Episodes & Studies Volume 2

Publication details: Historical Publications Branch, 1950, Wellington

Part of: The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–1945

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