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| 1963-feb-4 | Ordered | | | |
| 1963-jul-11 | Laid down | | at Hawthorn Leslie, before it joined the Swan Hunter group. | |
| 1964-jul-10 | Launched | | as RFA Olynthus | |
| 1965-jun-21 | Commissioned | | | |
| 1965-aug | Deployment |  | HMD Devonport Navy Days 1965 present at Plymouth Navy Days 1965, as RFA Olynthus | |
| 1966 | Aircraft | | while in support of HMS Victorious 1966/67 Far East deployment, received detached 814 NAS Wessex HAS.1 XM845 / 274-V as Olynthus Flt. | |
| 1967-jul-11 | | | renamed RFA Olwen | |
| 1970-nov | Deployment | |  Bhola Island  Operation Burlap to Bay of Bengal to assist in Bhola Cyclone relief efforts | |
| 1974-jul | Deployment | |  Akrotiri Bay Partition of Cyprus part of Task Force support to Eastern Mediterranean during Cyprus emergency | |
| 1977-jun-25 | Deployment | | Fleet Review: Silver Jubilee of HM The Queen Present at Silver Jubilee Fleet Review, off Bramble anchorage | |
| 1977-nov-25 | Deployment | | South Atlantic Operation Journeyman stood back from the Falklands in support of HMS Phoebe and HMS Alacrity. 819 NAS Sea King embarked. | |
| 1981-may | Deployment | | accompanied by HMS Glasgow and HM Submarine Superb, shadowed Kirov task group in the northern Atlantic. | |
| 1982-jun-17 | Deployment | | South Atlantic departed HMNB Portsmouth for South Atlantic, in company with HMS Birmingham, HMS Southampton, HMS Apollo and HMS Bacchante to support patrols of the post-war Falklands TEZ. | |
| 1983-nov | Deployment | |  Georgetown Departed UK for Ascension Island with 845 NAS Wessex HU.5 XT455 / YU embarked. | |
| 1988-sep-26 | Port Visit | |  HMAS Kuttabul Fleet Review: Australia Bi-centennial Naval Salute to Sydney for Australian Bi-centennial Fleet Review | |
| 1993-jan | Deployment | | Adriatic Sea UNPROFOR operated with 2 Sea King HAS.6 of 820 NAS (including ZG819 / 018), in support of HMS Ark Royal off Bosnia, with RFA Fort Grange, until Jul 1993. | |
| 1996 | | | IFOR (implementation force) in Adriatic sea | |
| 1999 | Decommissioned | | | |
| 2001-feb | | | Departed Portsmouth Harbour, originally for scrapping in Turkey. | |
| 2001-may | Fate: transfered | | renamed Kea | |
| 2001-jul | Fate: scrapped | |  Alang Breakers Yard at Alang, India | |
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Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn 
