| From | To | Details | Comments |
| Sep-94 | Launched Yarrows Scotstoun shipyard by Lady McKaig* | *wife of ADM Sir Rae mckaig | |
| Apr-77 | Commissioned | 3rd Frigate Squadron | |
| 28/06/77 | Silver Jubilee Spithead Portsmouth | ||
| 1979 | 1980 | World Deployment | Visit included Shanghai /Yangtse River |
| 1980 | Armilla Patrol Gulf of Oman | ||
| 1980 | NATO exercise Ocean Safari North Atlantic | ||
| Jul 81 | London (for Prince Charles & Lady Diana Spencer’s Wedding) | Alongside HMS Belfast | |
| Autumn 81 | Amsterdam | with Arrow, Amazon & Ardent | |
| 1982 | Falklands war | involved in Atlantic Conveyor attack | |
| 11th May 82 | 12th May 82 | Carried out first transit of Falkland Sound | Sunk 3900 ton Argentine naval transportARA Isla de Los Estados by gunfire This was the only surface naval action during the 1982 war |
| Sep-82 | Armilla Patrol Gulf of Oman | ||
| 1984 | Extended Docking | Side Strengthening | |
| 1984 | Falklands Guardship | South Georgia | |
| 1985 | West Indies Guardship | ||
| Mar-86 | end 1987 | Major refit Devonport | 313000 miles steamed |
| mid 1988 | Falklands Guardship | ||
| 1989 | Exercise Northern star around Norway | ||
| 1989 | West Indies Guardship | ||
| 1990 | Falklands Guardship | visits to Montevideo in Uruguay, Barbados and Fort Lauderdale. | |
| 1992 | 1993 | West Indies Guardship | |
| 1994 | sold to Pakistan Navy – now PNS Badr | ||
