---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 departed HMNB Portsmouth for South Atlantic, in company with 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 visit to Hamburg for 6 days, until 24 Jan.1983-apr-27 Deployment South Atlantic departed HMNB Portsmouth for South Atlantic to patrol the Falklands TEZ, returning to Portsmouth mid Sep.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 relieved from Armilla Patrol on station by HMS Syclla . 1988-sep-3 Deployment Strait of Hormuz (SN) Collision Armilla Patrol Armilla Patrol with Task Group 321.1 during Iran/Iraq war, escorting British shipping. In collision with 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 assisted in evacuation of Plymouth, Montserrat when Mount Soufriere began a series of eruptions.1995-aug-19 Deployment off Plymouth, MS Operation Harlech returned to Montserrat in response to further eruptions for a relief and evacuation mission.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) Atlantic Patrol Task (South), deployed around Falkland Islands between Feb 2000 and May 2000, relieving 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) departed HMNB Portsmouth for 6 month Atlantic Patrol Task (South) deployment. Operated around Falkland Islands between Sep 2005 and Jan 2006, relieving HMS Portland . Returned via Caribbean.2006-oct-11 Deployment Freetown Port Sierra Leone Operation Vela (Green Eagle) conduct of Exercise Green Eagle phase of Operation Vela, off Sierra Leone2007-apr Deployment South Atlantic Atlantic Patrol Task (South) departed HMNB Portsmouth for 8 month Atlantic Patrol Task (South) mission. On station from Jul until relieved by 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 by Jun 2011 was laid up in Fareham Creek2011-oct-14 Fate: scrapped Aliaga Shipbreakers left Portsmouth Harbour under tow to Turkey (arrived 2 Nov), for scrapping - completed by 13 Jan 2012