HMNZS Canterbury

HMNZS Canterbury

Two ships of the Royal New Zealand Navy have been named HMNZS "Canterbury" after the Canterbury region of New Zealand:

* HMNZS "Canterbury" (F-421), was a "Leander"-class frigate that served from 1971 to 2005, and was sunk as a a dive wreck in 2007.
* HMNZS "Canterbury" (L-421), a sealift ship commissioned in 2007.


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