---Filter--- Ordered Launched Commissioned Decommissioned Fate: scrapped Port Visit Refit Deployment 1971-nov Ordered 1973-mar-7 Launched Swan Hunter (Neptune) 1974-mar-22 Commissioned 1974-jul-10 Deployment Akrotiri Bay Partition of Cyprus 1975-jul-22 Deployment departed UK as support for HMS Glamorgan , flagship of global Task Group 317.3, accompanied by RFA Tarbatness and RFA Tidespring . Escorted by elements of the 8th Frigate Squadron HMS Ajax , HMS Berwick , HMS Plymouth and HMS Rothesay . Returned 14 Apr 1976 1977-jun-25 Deployment Fleet Review: Silver Jubilee of HM The Queen 1984-may Deployment in UK waters as FOST tanker 1984-nov Refit departed Gibraltar after refit 1985-sep-6 Port Visit George Town HSB 1986-jun Deployment Caribbean Flood Relief operations 2002-oct-14 Refit until 20 Dec 2002 2003 Deployment South Atlantic Atlantic Patrol Task (South) 2003-dec-11 Port Visit Luanda Bay Port supported visit to Angola by HMS Glasgow 2005-dec Deployment South Atlantic Atlantic Patrol Task (South) RFA Black Rover .2006-jun-1 Port Visit Fleet Review: 50th Anniversary of Nigerian Navy HMS Chatham . 2007-dec-16 Port Visit Tristan da Cunha Medical assistance visited following an appeal on 7 Dec by Island medical authorities for a contingency re-supply of drugs to combat a virus which caused breathing difficulties.2008-jul-6 Refit arrived at Northwestern Shiprepairers and Shipbuilders Ltd (NSSL), in Birkenhead for c 5 month refit. 2010-apr-11 Refit towed into Cammell Laird dry dock on Merseyside 2011-aug Deployment Atlantic Tanker South Departed HMNB Devonport for 21 month deployment as Atlantic Tanker South, relieving RFA Black Rover . Relieved in turn by RFA Black Rover and returned to Plymouth on 31 May 2013.2014-sep-26 Deployment departed HMNB Devonport (22 Sep) on her final deployment to the South Atlantic, initially via 2015-jun Deployment rendezvous with HMS Lancaster and supported her during her Atlantic deployment, until a final RAS on 8 Nov. 2015-oct-13 Port Visit James' Bay Visit visited St Helena, until 15 Oct2015-nov Deployment Exercise UNITAS Atlantic 2015 2016-apr-8 Port Visit Georgetown Visit visited Ascenscion Island until 12 Apr.2017-feb Deployment performed final RAS with HMS Portland , off west Africa 2017-feb-22 Port Visit HMNB Portsmouth 2017-mar-7 Decommissioned HMNB Portsmouth 2019-aug Fate: scrapped Sold for scrap in Turkey
Akrotiri Bay 
Partition of Cyprus supported evacuations during partition of Cyprus
George Town HSB Three day stop-over off Grand Cayman
Luanda Bay Port supported visit to Angola by HMS Glasgow
Tristan da Cunha Medical assistance visited following an appeal on 7 Dec by Island medical authorities for a contingency re-supply of drugs to combat a virus which caused breathing difficulties.
Swan Hunter (Neptune), Low Walker 
