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| 1950 | Laid down |  A200 HMS Vidal | |
| 1951-jul-31 | Launched | A200 HMS Vidal Last survey ship built at HMD Chatham | |
| 1954 | Commissioned | A200 HMS Vidal | |
| 1954-jul-10 | Deployment | A200 HMS Vidal while operating in Kingston Bay, Jamaica, Vidal Flt Hiller HTE.1 XB520 settled gently into the water and sank. Airframe recovered but was w/o. | |
| 1954-aug | Aircraft | A200 HMS Vidal Ships Flight replaced with Hiller HTE.1 XB516, until c Oct 1957 | |
| 1954-oct-12 | Deployment | A200 HMS Vidal humanitarian support to Haiti, after the western part of the island was hit by Hurricane Hazel on 11 Oct. | |
| 1955-sep-18 | Deployment | A200 HMS Vidal To uninhabited North Atlantic island of Rockall to raise a Union Flag. Temp assigned Dragonfly HR.1 VZ965 as Ships Flt for the duty. | |
| 1957-oct-31 | Aircraft | A200 HMS Vidal Ships Flt (then with Dragonfly) administered by 701 Squadron. | |
| 1958-feb | Aircraft | A200 HMS Vidal assigned 701 Sq V Flt Dragonfly HR.5 WP501 as /705 by Feb 1958, until 9 Dec 1959. | |
| 1959-dec-9 | Aircraft | A200 HMS Vidal assigned 701 Sq V Flt Dragonfly WP501/705 ditched on take-off and sank 9 Dec 1959 in Davis Strait, 60nm W of Greenland | |
| 1960-feb | Aircraft | A200 HMS Vidal Dragonfly WH991 allocated as 701 Sq V Flt in Feb 1960 but damaged on 9 Mar during transportation to ship, in Trinidad. | |
| 1961-aug-14 | Aircraft | A200 HMS Vidal 701 V Flight reformed with Dragonfly WG671/969. With a short gap between May and Sep 1963, the Flt remained in commission with Dragonfly until Jul 1965 | |
| 1961-nov | Deployment | A200 HMS Vidal to British Honduras for post-Hurricane humanitarian support, with HMS Londonderry and HMS Troubridge. | |
| 1963 | Deployment | A200 HMS Vidal took part in Operation Navado. | |
| 1964-sep | Port Visit | A200 HMS Vidal visited Leningrad, for meeting between UK and USSR Chief Hydrographers. | |
| 1966-may-22 | | A200 HMS Vidal damaged during collision with freighter Hong Kong Fair in mid Atlantic | |
| 1968-jan-1 | Aircraft | A200 HMS Vidal 829 Sq Vidal Flt reformed (with Wasp ex Hecla Flt) XT429/408-VI, until Mar 1970. | |
| 1968-dec | Deployment | A200 HMS Vidal Scheduled visit to Basra for Christmas met with uncooperative Iraqi forces. Rapid departure almost led to an International Incident. | |
| 1970-apr-17 | Deployment | A200 HMS Vidal  Apollo XIII splashdown recovery to waters off Mauritius as standby for secondary splashdown site for Apollo XIII recovery | |
| 1971-aug | Decommissioned | A200 HMS Vidal Paid off Aug 1971, laid up Aug 1972 | |
| 1976-jun | Fate: scrapped | A200 HMS Vidal at Bruges | |
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