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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 59834

HMNZS Leander
(British/New Zealand Light Cruiser, 1933)

Underway in Gatun Lake, Panama Canal, 19 July 1937.
Note the Supermarine "Walrus" aircraft on her catapult, amidships, and her recently-installed twin four-inch anti-aircraft gun mounts.
Leander had been loaned to the Royal New Zealand Navy a few months earlier.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 25 January 2007