Original Royal Navy boat badge from HMS Bacchante was a Leander-class frigate. HMS Bacchante was built by Vickers. In 1970, HMS Bacchante joined Standing Naval Force Atlantic, with which she visited a variety of ports and performed naval exercises. In 1971 she was deployed to the West Indies. While there, she participated in a number of naval exercises, including an exercise with the aircraft carriers HMS Ark Royal and USS America. She acted as West Indies guard ship in 1973. During the same period, she was deployed for the Second and Third Cod Wars as part of the Fishery Protection Squadron.

HMS Bacchante was deployed to the Persian Gulf in 1981 conducting the second ever. Armilla patrol taking over from HMS Minerva visiting the Somali capital of Mogadishu and the Oman capital of Muscat. In 1982. Bacchante was decommissioned from the Royal Navy and subsequently sold to the Royal New Zealand Navy. She was renamed HMNZS Wellington and decommissioned from the RNZN in 2000.

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