FIFTH LEANDER, 1933:

A light cruiser of 7270 tons displacement and 72,000 horsepower, mounting eight 6-inch and eight 4-inch guns. Built at Devonport Dockyard and engined by Vickers-Armstrong Ltd. Launched 1931 and completed 1933. Name ship of a class of five light cruisers, the others being Achilles, Ajax, Neptune, and Orion.

The ship's motto is Qui Patitur Vincit (‘Who suffers, conquers’). The crest consists of ‘An arm in armour holding a lance proper between two lotus flowers argent on wavelets or and vert’.