| Name: | BACCHANTE |
| Type: | Frigate |
| Keel: | 27/10/1966 |
| Launched: | 29/02/1968 |
| Completed: | 05/12/1969 |
| Builder: | Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd |
| Yard: | High Walker |
| Yard Number: | 189 |
| Dimensions: | 2500disp - 2962disp, 360.0 x 43.0 x 19.0(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, DR geared, English Electric type, 30000hp |
| Engines by: | Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd, Barrow |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 30.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 1 x 2 x 4.5ins, 2 x 1 x 40mm guns; 1 x 4 x Sea Cat AA missiles; |
| 1 x 3 x Limbo anti-submarine mortar; 1 x Wasp helicopter | |
| History: | |
| 05/12/1969 | British Royal Navy |
| 1982 | Government of New Zealand; renamed WELLINGTON |
| 13/11/2005 | Sank |
| Comments: | Member of the Leander Class (broad beamed version). Allocated pennant number F69 |
| In 01/1968 Vickers merged the High Walker yard with Swan Hunter & Tyne Shipbuilders Ltd and from that date Swan Hunter took responsibility for the contract acting as agents for the Vickers Group | |
| 05/05/2000: Decommissioned | |
| 13/11/2005: Scuttled as an artificial reef & dive attraction off Houghton Bay, Wellington |
Above photo as BACCHANTE, dated 26/05/1969, is copyright of Michael Petts
Above photo as BACCHANTE is courtesy of Photoship
Above photo as BACCHANTE is copyright of Chris Howell
Above photo as BACCHANTE is copyright of Corveleyn Roger
Above photo as WELLINGTON is copyright of Chris Howell
Above photo as WELLINGTON, dated 24/09/1986, is courtesy of the Michael Green collection
Being stripped ready for sinking. Above photo is copyright of Nick Baxter
Newcastle Journal, Friday, 01/03/1968
Newcastle Journal, Saturday, 11/10/1969