---Filter--- Ordered Laid down Launched Commissioned Struck Fate: scrapped Port Visit Refit Deployment 1968-jan Ordered 1968-feb-28 Laid down at Swan Hunter (Hebburn) Yard - ex Hawthorne Leslie. Yard No 7 1969-apr-17 Launched 1970-apr-10 Commissioned 1975-sep Refit diesel 1977-sep-5 Deployment Departed HMNB Portsmouth for 7.5 month group deployment (TG 317.6) to Australia and Far East, supporting HMS Tiger and in company with HMS Rhyl , RFA Regent, RFA Tarbatness and RFA Tidepool . Returned 20 Apr 1978. 1983-dec-2 Deployment Akrotiri Bay Operation Offcut Armilla Patrol deployment, ordered off Cyprus in readiness to sail to Beirut, if required.1984-mar Deployment North Atlantic deployment including hosting a RAS with USS Austin . 1985-aug Deployment Refueled USS Vreeland in the North Atlantic 1992-apr-18 Deployment Vertrep while off the coast of Mauritania, supplied drums of foam to Lynx HAS.2 ZD265 / 338-CT as a team from HMS Campbeltown fought to extinguish a fire on a nearby tanker.1998-jun-15 Refit until 27 Nov 1998 2001-aug-24 Port Visit HMNB Portsmouth IFOS 2001 International Festival of Sea 2001 2003-jan-30 Deployment Operation Telic 2003-apr-20 Deployment departed Persian Gulf in support of HMS Liverpool for Singapore and exercises with the Singapore Navy. Returned to the UK on 7 Aug. 2006-mar-15 Struck taken out of service at Portsmouth 2009-oct-14 Fate: scrapped Canada Dock Breakers Yard towed to Liverpool for scrap at Leavesley International, following abandoned sale.
diesel Completion of refit to change unreliable original 16000 shp diesel engines to Crossley-Pielstick untis
Akrotiri Bay 
Operation Offcut while returning as support tanker from an Armilla Patrol deployment, ordered off Cyprus in readiness to sail to Beirut, if required.
Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn 
