DeploymentPersian GulfPersian Gulf Patrol Deployed HMNB Portsmouth to Persian Gulf with Wessex HU.5 XS507 coded 314.ON named "buzby" of 772 Squadron embarked; In company with HMS Cardiff and HMS Amazon; Contaminated fuel tanks required ship to return to UK for cleaning; On the way back to the UK anchored off Gib waiting for SS Uganda to depart as converted hospital ship for Operation Corporate. XS507 Wessex HU.5 carried out first deck landing on SS Uganda whilst RFA Olna did refuelling trials with the Uganda; Olna returned to UK whilst Uganda sailed South; Arrived UK Apr82
1982-may-10
Deployment
DeploymentSpitheadSouth AtlanticOperation Corporate Departed from Spithead anchorage for South Atlantic with 848 Squadron B Flt embarked, leaving the theatre on 31 Aug 1982 in company with HMS Invincible.
1983-may-27
Deployment
Deploymentoff Nataloff Tibau do Sul recovered ditched Wasp HAS.1 XV638 of 829 Sq Achilles Flt from sea, 50nm NE of Tibau do Sul, Brazil.
DeploymentOff IslayRescue supportRescue from fishing ship Kartli gave aid to rescued mariners from the Kartli and used by Rescue helicopters to disembark survivors temporarily, as they returned to scene of search to recover more.
1994-oct
Deployment
Deployment deployed to Adriatic Sea until Jul 1995 to support NATO operations around Bosnia-Herzegovina in the former Republic of Yugoslavia.
1997-jan
Deployment
DeploymentOcean Wave 97 deployment departed UK in support of Far East deployment, returned end of Aug.
Akrotiri Bay Partition of Cyprus supported evacuations during partition of Cyprus
off Natal off Tibau do Sul recovered ditched Wasp HAS.1 XV638 of 829 Sq Achilles Flt from sea, 50nm NE of Tibau do Sul, Brazil.