---Filter--- Ordered Laid down Launched Commissioned Decommissioned Struck Fate: scrapped Port Visit Refit Deployment Aircraft 1976-mar-17 Ordered 1976-oct-21 Laid down as second Batch 2 Type 42 1979-jan-29 Launched 1981-may-26 Aircraft 815 Sq Southampton Flight formed at RNAS Portland. 1981-oct-31 Commissioned alongside QE II Terminal, Southampton 1981-nov-16 Aircraft embarkation of 815 Sq Southampton Flt with Lynx HAS.2 known as Monty 1982-jun-18 Deployment South Atlantic HMS Birmingham , HMS Apollo , HMS Bacchante and RFA Olwen , to patrol the post-war Falklands TEZ, returning to Portsmouth 17 Oct.1983-jan-19 Port Visit Hamburg Port 1983-apr-27 Deployment South Atlantic 1984 Accident collided with a navigation buoy around the Shambles, off Portland, resulting in damage requiring alongside repairs.1986-jun Aircraft 202 Flt assigned Lynx ZD257 as 815 Sq/334-SN ships flt until c Apr 1988.1986-aug-7 Deployment Armilla Patrol HMS Syclla . 1988-sep-3 Deployment Strait of Hormuz (SN) Collision Armilla Patrol mv Tor Bay in Straits of Hormuz, damaging both vessels. (Relieved on patrol by HMS Boxer ).1993-aug-31 Aircraft 229 Flt assigned Lynx XZ228 as 815 Sq/334-SN ships flt until c Nov 1994.1995-jan Aircraft 229 Flt assigned Lynx ZD257 again, as 815 Sq/334-SN ships flt until c Sep 1996.1995-jul Deployment off Plymouth, MS Mount Soufriere began a series of eruptions.1995-aug-19 Deployment off Plymouth, MS Operation Harlech 1996-oct Aircraft 229 Flt assigned Lynx XZ229 as 815 Sq/334-SN ships flt until c Jun 1997.1998-jan Refit until May 1999 at Babcock, Rosyth. 2000 Deployment South Atlantic Atlantic Patrol Task (South) HMS Somerset .2005-jun Aircraft 208 Flt assigned Lynx XZ694 as 815 Sq/334-SN ships flt until c Feb 2007.2005-aug-21 Deployment South Atlantic Atlantic Patrol Task (South) HMS Portland . Returned via Caribbean.2006-oct-11 Deployment Freetown Port Sierra Leone Operation Vela (Green Eagle) 2007-apr Deployment South Atlantic Atlantic Patrol Task (South) HMS Nottingham . Returned to HMNB Portsmouth on 14 Dec 2007.2008-jul-31 Struck into extended readiness at HMNB Portsmouth 2009-feb Decommissioned 2011-jun Fareham Creek 2011-oct-14 Fate: scrapped Aliaga Shipbreakers left Portsmouth Harbour under tow to Turkey (arrived 2 Nov), for scrapping - completed by 13 Jan 2012
Hamburg Port visit to Hamburg for 6 days, until 24 Jan.
Armilla Patrol relieved from Armilla Patrol on station by HMS Syclla.
off Plymouth, MS assisted in evacuation of Plymouth, Montserrat when Mount Soufriere began a series of eruptions.
Freetown Port Sierra Leone 
Aliaga Shipbreakers left Portsmouth Harbour under tow to Turkey (arrived 2 Nov), for scrapping - completed by 13 Jan 2012
Vosper Thornycroft, Woolston 
