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HMS Eskimo (F119)

UK Royal Navy

1963-1979

Type 81 Tribal class

FF · Frigate

Flight Deck:ES
Call Sign:GDFE
Shipyard:J Samuel White

Timeline

DateEvent
Oct 22, 1958 Laid down as Yard No. 2001
Mar 20, 1960 Launched
Feb 21, 1963 Commissioned
Jan 1965 Aircraft assigned 829 Sq Wasp HAS.1 XT416/183-ES by Feb 1965, /453-ES by Aug 1965, until c Jun 1966
Jun 1967 Deployment relieved HMS Ashanti standing off Aden during Arab-Israeli six day war of 1967.
Jan 1969 Aircraft GI RAF Gibraltar assigned 829 Sq Wasp HAS.1 XV631/453-ES, until damaged at RAF North Front Aug 1969. Accident
Jan 1970 Aircraft assigned 829 Sq Wasp HAS.1 XT427/453 until c Jun 1970
Sep 1970 Deployment Mozambique Channel off Mozambique Channel, enforcing UN sanctions. Beira Beira Patrol
Feb 17, 1971 Port Visit Represented the UK at 5th Annual Massawa Naval Days, Ethiopia (now in Eritrea). Departed on 25 Feb.
Jul 1971 Refit HMD Chatham with GWS-21, completed a refit at HMD Chatham, shake down and re-commissioned on 15 Dec 1973. Sea Cat
May 1973 Port Visit HMD Chatham present at Chatham Navy Days Navy Days
Sep 1973 Aircraft assigned 829 Sq Wasp HAS.1 XT442/453 until crashed at Norton Heliport, while on loan to BRNC Flt on 12 Dec 1973 Accident
Dec 1973 Aircraft assigned 829 Sq Wasp HAS.1 XT781/453, until landing accident during night recovery to ship, off Portland on 28 Mar 1974
May 1, 1974 Aircraft assigned 829 Sq Wasp HAS.1 XT434/453, until c Sep 1976.
Jun 1974 Deployment 6 month deployment as West Indies Guardship, returned late Jan 1975
Feb 1976 Deployment Atlantic Patrol Ship (South) until Apr 1976, supported by RFA Tidesurge.
Nov 1976 Aircraft assigned 829 Sq Wasp HAS.1 XT794/453, until corrosion discovered later that month.
Mar 1977 Aircraft assigned 829 Sq Wasp HAS.1 XV636/453, until c Nov 1978.
Nov 16, 1977 Deployment BS off Grand Bahama rendezvous with HMS Scylla off Grand Bahama
Nov 1978 Aircraft assigned 829 Sq Wasp HAS.1 XT429/453, until c Aug 1980.
Aug 1979 Refit entered refit and on completion joined the Standby squadron in Chatham
Aug 1980 Decommissioned
1986 Fate: transfered for missile trials
Jan 17, 1986 Trials Pembroke Dock towed from Portsmouth to Pembroke Dock with a plan to be used a target, for missile evaluation. Unlikely the missile trials ever happened.
May 19, 1992 Fate: scrapped arrived at Demolicion Naval Del Norte in Bilbao, under tow and subsequently scrapped. Breakers Yard