Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "HMS Leander - Guide 183" video.

  1. 1st October, 1941. Prior to that the term used was 'The New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy.'
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  2. I would doubt that, simply because Ajax decommissioned in February, 1948. Between July 1945 & October, 1951, Clement Attlee was Prime Minister & a Labour government in power. Whether Churchill disapproved or not was, to be honest, irrelevant. Ajax' sister ship, Achilles, rejoined the RN from the RNZN in September, 1946, and was sold to the Indian Navy in July, 1948.
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  3. Yes. She sustained minor damage.
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