Royal Navy Service
The ships performed excellently in Royal Navy service, with relatively low noise levels giving the 2031(I) towed sonar mounted during the 1970s a range of more than 100 miles, better than that of the more advanced 2031(Z) sonar when fitted in the Type 22 class. However, all Leanders in Royal Navy service were decommissioned by the early 1990s due to the ships' aging design and the high number of crew. Scylla was sunk 27 March 2004 as an artificial reef off Cornwall, ten years after her decommissioning in 1994.
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