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1960-feb-26 | Laid down |  | Swan Hunter (Wallsend) as DLG03, Yard No. 1903 | |
1961-dec-7 | Launched | | | |
1963-oct | Aircraft | | assigned Wessex HAS.1 XP151/175-LO for ship s flt. Recoded /405-LO by Aug 1964, until 1965. | |
1963-nov-4 | Commissioned | | | |
1965-aug | Deployment | | returned to UK after first commission. | |
1965-aug-28 | Deployment |  | HMNB Portsmouth Navy Days 1965 present at Portsmouth Navy Days 1965 | |
1966-mar | Aircraft | | assigned 829 Sq Wessex HAS.1 XS874/405-LO for ships flt, until Nov 1968. | |
1967-nov | Deployment | | part of Task Force 318 to cover the British withdrawal from Aden during Operation Magister. | |
1968-nov-4 | Aircraft | | Accident Ships Flt Wessex XS874 ditched in English Channel south of Portland 4 Nov 1968. Recovered, wreck to AIU Lee-on-Solent via Portland Harbour. | |
1968-dec | Aircraft | | assigned 829 Sq Wessex HAS.1 XM842/405-LO for ships flt, until 1971. | |
1969 | Deployment |  | Mozambique Channel Beira Beira Patrol operations during 1969 | |
1970-nov-2 | Deployment |  | Grand Harbour / il-Port il-Kbir / Valletta Exercise Lime Jug Exercise Lime Jug departed Valletta on 29 Oct for Lime Jug, in company with HMS Ark Royal. ENDEX on 15 Nov. | |
1971-sep | Aircraft | | assigned 737 Sq Wessex HAS.1 XP157/405-LO for ships flt, until c Aug 1972. | |
1974-oct | Aircraft | | assigned 737 Sq Wessex HAS.3 XM327/405-LO for ships flt, until c Oct 1975. | |
1975-oct | Aircraft | | assigned 737 Sq Wessex HAS.3 XM838/405-LO for ships flt, until Jul 1979. | |
1977-jun-25 | Deployment | | Fleet Review: Silver Jubilee of HM The Queen Present at Silver Jubilee Fleet Review, off Ryde Sand | |
1979-apr-1 | Deployment | | Departed Malta with Flag Officer Malta, Rear Admiral Oswald Cecil, as the final act of the British withdrawal from Malta. | |
1979-jul | Aircraft | | assigned 737 Sq Wessex HAS.3 XM923 on loan, mainly for duty in Northern Ireland detached to RAF Aldergrove, until c Feb 1980. | |
1981-may | Port Visit |  | Tower Bridge Upper Pool of London visit to Pool of London, moored beside HMS Belfast. | |
1981-dec | Decommissioned | | | |
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1982 | Commissioned | | ex UK RN HMS London | |
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1982-mar-24 | Fate: transfered | | to Pakistan as PNS Babur | |
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1994 | Decommissioned | | | |
1995 | Fate: scrapped | | sold for scrap | |
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