HMS Boxer (F92)

1983-1999

Type 22 (Batch 2) Boxer class

Timeline

Date	Event
Apr 25, 1979	Ordered
Nov 1, 1979	Laid down
Jun 17, 1981	Launched	Yard No 1024
Dec 22, 1983	Commissioned
Jan 1984	Trials	Trials ship for Computer Assisted Command System (CACS1).
Dec 1984	Aircraft	815 NAS 211 Flt transferred in from HMS Glamorgan.
Oct 1988	Deployment	ordered to Gulf as emergency replacement for HMS Southampton (damaged in a collision), with Lynx XZ239/377-XB and XZ724/376-XB embarked. Armilla Patrol
1989	Refit	emerged 1990
Jan 1989	Aircraft	829 Sq Lynx HAS.3 ZD251 assigned as /376-XB until c Sep 1989
Mar 1992	Aircraft	829 Sq Lynx HAS.3GM ZD253 assigned as /376-XB until c Dec 1992
May 22, 1992	Deployment	Piraeus Port visit to Piraeus with Task Group 318.1, after Exercise Dragon Hammer in the eastern Mediterranean. Task Group 318.1 Orient 92 deployment
Apr 1998	Aircraft	815 Sq Lynx HMA.8 ZD265 as Boxer Flt / 376-XB by Apr 1998 until c Aug 1999
Aug 4, 1999	Decommissioned
Aug 2004	Fate: sunk	sunk as fleet target in North Atlantic, after being towed out of Portsmouth on 27 Jul.