Withdrawal
With the lack of ongoing operational requirements and the age of the units that were not rebuilt themselves the number of units was drawndown throughout the 1980s, Most of the first batch delivered were withdrawn by the end of 1986 with the remainder almost all out of service by the end of the decade. Following withdrawal most units were taken to Hutt for scrapping during the early 1990s, though a few were scrapped elsewhere.
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