---Filter--- Laid down Launched Commissioned Decommissioned Fate: transfered Port Visit Refit Deployment Aircraft 1966-mar-15 Laid down Swan Hunter (Wallsend) 1967-nov-16 Launched 1970-mar-7 Commissioned 1970-oct Aircraft 737 Sq Wessex HAS.3 XP140 /407-NF assigned to Norfolk Flt, until c Jan 1972 1972 Refit MM38 Exocet single launcher 1973-feb Aircraft 737 Sq Wessex HAS.3 XM328 /407-NF assigned to Norfolk Flt, until c Sep 1974 1974-feb-20 Port Visit Gan Anchorage HMS Fife 1974-sep Aircraft 737 Sq Wessex HAS.3 XP137 /407-NF assigned to Norfolk Flt, until c Jan 1975 1975-jan Aircraft 737 Sq Wessex HAS.3 XM837 /407-NF assigned to Norfolk Flt, until c Mar 1981 1979-may-8 Deployment departed HMNB Portsmouth as Flagship of Task Group 317.8 for 7 month Indian Ocean and Far East group deployment in company with HMS Achilles , HMS Arethusa and HMS Falmouth , supported by RFA Black Rover , RFA Olmeda and RFA Regent . This group joined with the Devonport group of HMS Arrow and HMS Dido , returned to UK 14 Dec 1979. 1980 Deployment Deployed to Aegean Sea 1980:
I was a US Army soldier stationed in Izmir Turkey in 1980. HMS Norfolk made a Port-of-Call to Izmir where I met up with several sailors from the Norfolk and carried on with them for several days until they departed. I still have the HMS Norfolk plaque they gave me when they left. 1981 Decommissioned 1982-apr-6 Fate: transfered to Chile as Capitan Prat 1982-apr-6 Commissioned ex UK RN HMS Norfolk 2006-aug-11 Decommissioned 2009 Fate: scrapped towed to Mexico to be scrapped
Chilean Navy - D-11 Capitan Prat 
MM38 Exocet single launcher 2 year refit, to remove B turret and replace with 4x MM38 Exocet launchers (see main picture, above)
Gan Anchorage arrived in Gan for short visit to receive VIPs from HMS Fife
Swan Hunter (Wallsend), Wallsend 
