1944

 1945 1946 1954 1955

LAUNCHED

 25th July 1944

COMPLETED 20th February 1945

May 1946 - Portsmouth  Placed in Reserve

Modernisation  at Yarrows Scotstoun Yard

 

Scapa Flow

Work Up
6th Destroyer Flotilla
Operation Cleaver
East Indies
1956 1957 1958 1959 1960

6th Destroyer Squadron

 Portsmouth Portsmouth Portsmouth Gan, Maldives
Glasgow 4th Dec 1956 Ship's Co join (it's raining) Gibraltar Portland Londonderry Calcutta
Greenock

 

 Malta

 

 Londonderry

 

 Clyde areas

 

 Singapore

 
Garelochead

Leghorn

Portland Londonderry

Trincomalee

St Raphael London Portsmouth Singapore Refit
Malta Portsmouth Gibraltar Australia
Limassol

 

PAID OFF

 4th March 1958

 Portsmouth New Zealand

 
Cyprus Patrol  6 weeks Portsmouth Londonderry Hong Kong
Istanbul

Gibraltar

Iceland Patrol

Amasya

Malta -  Work up

Stockholm

Malta Catania Portsmouth
Marseilles

Malta

Devonport

Gibraltar Cyprus Newcastle Co Down
Portsmouth

Naples

Iceland Patrol

Plymouth Malta - Refit Rosyth
Milford Haven

 

 Toulon

 

 Bremen

 
Rosyth Gibraltar

RE-COMMISSIONED  8th Sep  1959   Portsmouth - 8th Destroyer Squadron Far East Fleet

 
Plymouth Portland Sea Trials
Portsmouth Deployed - Far East 20th November 1959
Antwerp

Gibraltar
Rosyth Malta
Hartlepool Suez Canal
Portsmouth

Aden

1961

1962

1963

1964

1965
Hong Kong Singapore Refit Long Refit Gibraltar

RE-COMMISSIONED 14th May 1964 at Gibraltar

 Malta
Penang

Hong Kong

27th Escort Squadron

 Portland Work up Singapore

Bangkok

 

South Korea, Inchon & Chinae

Santander 

 

Indonesian Confontration

 

Singapore

 

 Yokohoma ,Japan

Antwerp

Hong Kong

RE-COMMISSIONED 6th May 1961 at Singapore

 Okinawa Londonderry Maldives

Hong Kong Singapore Plymouth Suez Canal
Australia Suez Canal Gibraltar Malta
Singapore Refit Malta Gibraltar
Gibraltar - Long Refit Plymouth

1966 1967 1968 1969 1970
Gibraltar

21st Jan re-commissioning ceremony. Sea Trials Plymouth Area.  14th Feb last phase party joins Gibraltar

Plymouth Awaiting Disposal
Malta

Portsmouth - Admiral Wise Inspection

 

 Freetown

Liverpool Sold for scrap to J Cashmore, Newport 23rd October 1970

 
Greek Islands

Portland

Work up

 Simonstown

Plymouth

Seychelles

Torrey Canyon 18/19 March. Operation MOP UP 27th March - 6th April. Falmouth and Penzance visits. Portland Work up continues.

 

 Beira Patrol

PAID OFF

March
Aden

 

 Rochester - Anglo Dutch Celebrations with HMNLS Holland

 

 

 Mauritius (Independance  Day 12th March 1968)

Mombasa

Kiel - Kieler Woche 

Gan - Maldives

Suez Canal Stavanger

Singapore
Malta

Portsmouth AMP Subic Bay

Gibraltar Cowes Week Tonga - Treaty of Friendship

Plymouth Western Isles - Royal Yacht Guardship Fiji - Suva

RE-COMMISSIONED

6th October 1966

 

 Teignmouth Regatta Guardship

Dartmouth

 

 New Zealand -  Nelson & Auckland (twice or was it three times?)

New RNZN Ensign 18th June 1968

 

 
Docking Period

Gibraltar Guardship Australia -  Sydney, Townsville & Darwin

Devonport Dockyard Gib Referendum 27 September 1968 and Smokey Joe stand-off New Hebrides- Malekula, Ambrym, Aoba, Efate (Vila), Atchen
Plymouth New Caledonia
Ship's Co living in Nissen Huts in HMS Drake Deployed - Far East 20th November 1967 South Pacific
Gibraltar Guardship Singapore
Tangier Farquhar Islands
Gibraltar Beira Patrol 4 weeks
Simonstown

Gibraltar
Plymouth 14th November 1968