Timeline
| Date | |
|---|---|
| Jul 5, 1950 | |
| Jul 31, 1951 | Last survey ship built at HMD Chatham |
| 1954 | |
| Jul 10, 1954 |  Kingston Bay 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. Jamaica |
| Aug 1954 | Ships Flight replaced with Hiller HTE.1 XB516, until c Oct 1957 |
| Oct 12, 1954 |  Port au Prince humanitarian support to Haiti, after the western part of the island was hit by Hurricane Hazel on 11 Oct. |
| Sep 18, 1955 | Rockall To uninhabited North Atlantic island of Rockall to raise a Union Flag. Temp assigned Dragonfly HR.1 VZ965 as Ships Flt for the duty. |
| Oct 31, 1957 | Ships Flt (then with Dragonfly) administered by 701 Squadron. |
| Feb 1958 | assigned 701 Sq V Flt Dragonfly HR.5 WP501 as /705 by Feb 1958, until 9 Dec 1959. |
| Dec 9, 1959 |  Davis Strait assigned 701 Sq V Flt Dragonfly WP501/705 ditched on take-off and sank 9 Dec 1959 in Davis Strait, 60nm W of Greenland Accident |
| Feb 1960 | Dragonfly WH991 allocated as 701 Sq V Flt in Feb 1960 but damaged on 9 Mar during transportation to ship, in Trinidad. |
| Aug 14, 1961 | 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 |
| Nov 1961 | to British Honduras for post-Hurricane humanitarian support, with HMS Londonderry and HMS Troubridge. |
| 1963 | took part in Operation Navado. |
| Sep 1964 | visited Leningrad, for meeting between UK and USSR Chief Hydrographers. |
| May 22, 1966 | damaged during collision with freighter Hong Kong Fair in mid Atlantic |
| Jan 1, 1968 | 829 Sq Vidal Flt reformed (with Wasp ex Hecla Flt) XT429/408-VI, until Mar 1970. |
| Dec 1968 | Scheduled visit to Basra for Christmas met with uncooperative Iraqi forces. Rapid departure almost led to an International Incident. |
| Apr 17, 1970 | Apollo 13 splashdown secondary to waters off Mauritius as standby for secondary splashdown site for Apollo XIII recovery Apollo 13 recovery Apollo XIII splashdown recovery |
| Aug 1971 | Paid off Aug 1971, laid up Aug 1972 |
| Jun 1976 | at Bruges |