---Filter--- Commissioned Decommissioned Fate: sunk Refit Aircraft History of RFA Stromness 1964-dec-7 Ordered 1965-oct-5 Laid down Swan Hunter (Wallsend) 1966-sep-16 Launched 1967-aug-10 Commissioned 1967-oct-9 Deployment Gulf of Aden 78 Sq Wessex HC.2 XR500 for VERTREP, while off Aden.1970-nov Deployment Bhola Island Operation Burlap 1970-dec Aircraft Operation Epigram XT485 /K-ST as detached flight until c Feb 1971. 1974-sep-17 Deployment departed HMNB Portsmouth to support Task Group 317.2 for Far East deployment, joining with HMS Achilles , HMS Diomede , HMS Falmouth , HMS Leander , HMS Lowestoft , RFA Green Rover , RFA Olna and HMS Blake , returned Jun 1975. 1977-jun-25 Deployment Fleet Review: Silver Jubilee of HM The Queen 1978-may-31 Deployment departed HMNB Portsmouth supporting HMS Blake , Flagship of Task Group 317.7 for a 6.5 month Caribbean, Atlantic and Pacific group deployment in company with HMS Juno , RFA Green Rover and RFA Tidespring . This group joined with the Devonport group of HMS Ambuscade , HMS Hermione and HMS Leander , returned to UK 12 Dec 1978. 1981 disposed 1981-aug-29 Port Visit HMD Devonport Navy Days 1981 Ship open to visitors at Plymouth Navy Days 19811982-apr Deployment Falklands/Malvinas War 1982-apr-7 Deployment South Atlantic Operation Corporate en route and arriving in theatre 16 May. Departed end of Jun and arrived Portsmouth on 19 Jul 1982.1982-apr-7 Deployment Operation Corporate 1983-jan-1 Decommissioned 1983-jan-1 Fate: transfered to the US Sealift Command as Saturn 1983-jan-1 Commissioned 1983-oct Refit Added hangars to enable 2x Chinook operations. 1995 Aircraft Mediterranean deployment 1995-96 with HC-6 Det 2 embarked. 1997-feb-07 NEWS MSC awards VERTREP test contract 2009-apr-6 Decommissioned Deactivated 2010-oct-27 Fate: sunk sunk by sea and air assets of the George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group in a Sinkex off North Carolina
Royal Fleet Auxiliary - Ness class A344 RFA Stromness 
Bhola Island 
Operation Burlap to Bay of Bengal to assist in Bhola Cyclone relief efforts
