Question 30

A frigate question.  Click Play to listen.

 
Answer – In 1980-81 Taranaki was planned for modernising and conversion to gas-turbine propulsion (Rolls-Royce Tyne engines), and a lot of preparatory work, including ordering the machinery, was done by Devonport dockyard and RNZN staff. However, in October 1981, the government arranged to purchase Dido and Bacchante from the RN and Taranaki’s conversion was cancelled.