| 1966
April
15th, Commissioned, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Hit Sirius on entering Plymouth Portland N.Atlantic
See
"First Commission"
(updated 14.2.08, crew list added) |
1967
Jan
sailed for Far East via Gib, Cyprus, Aden
Mombasa
Beira
Patrol
Singapore
Hon
Kong
Fremantle
Aden
withdrawal
Mombasa
Beira
patrol (helicopter ditched with 3 weeks mail)
(incident
with French oil tanker)
Simonstown
(briefly)
Freetown
|
1968
Jan
Return to Portsmouth
4 month
refit
June-
West Indies
Oct -
Dry Dock, Sea Trials at Chatham
Dec -
Portland work up |
1969
Jan -
Portland work up
Feb -
West Indies, - Azores, Bermuda, Antiga, Anguilla, Roosevelt Roads,
Montserrat, Trinidad, Grenada, San Juan, St Luica, Belize, Puerto
Cortes, Mobile, Key West, Freeport
July - return from W.Indies.
Chatham dry dock,
Sea
trials
Portland
work up
Chatham
Xmas leave (and Isaac joins)
|
1970
Gibraltar:
shadowing Moskva; plane guard for HMS Eagle;
Tromso
Thorshavn
Cape
Verde Islands
Ascension
Island
St
Helena
Simonstown
Beira
patrol
LAST
TOT
Singapore Solomon
Islands: Gizo; Yandina; Kira Kira Lo
Island Auckland Dunedin
(NZ) Sydney Bunbury
(WA) Freemantle Singapore
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| 1971
Madras
Simonstown
Sierra
Leone
Gibraltar
Chatham
Portland
Madeira
(Funchal)
Simonstown
Beira
patrol
Mombasa
Bahrain
Mombasa
|
1972
Simonstown
Buenos
Aires
Montevideo
Rio de
Janeiro
Salvador
Portsmouth
Chatham
(and Isaac leaves)
Antwerp
Nov HRH the Prince of Wales joins Minerva
|
1973
Bermuda.
Exercise
"Rum Punch",
Montserat,
Dominica,
San
Juan,
Grand
Turk,
South
Caicos
Freeport,
AUTEC
Range.
Cartagena,
Exercise
"Colombritex". Bermuda,
Antigua
weapon training,
San
Juan,
Rendezvous
Bay.
St
Kitts,
Nevis,
Rendezvous
Bay,
Anguilla,
Roosevelt
Roads,
San
Juan,
Barbados,
Chatham
Bay -Grenadines.
Grenada,
Nassau,
Grand
Caymen,
La
Guaira-Venezuela, Maracaibo-Venezuela,
St
Vincent.
Ex
"Doria Salute 2",
San
Juan,
Bermuda,
Portsmouth-
New Hampshire,
Halifax
- Nova Scotia,
Portsmouth
Chatham
for a refit
(info
John Powell.)
Aug HRH
the Prince of Wales leaves Minerva
|
1974
|
1975
|
| 1986
West Indies
(Training Ship)
Grenada
St Lucia
|
1987
Gib
Ascension
Falklands
South Georgia
Patagonian
Canal
transit
Valparaiso
,
Chile
Lima
Rodman Island, Panama
Panama canal transit
Mayport, Florida
Devonport
Perisher's course
UK
“Schools” Tour including:
Barrow in Furnace;
Glasgow;
Hull:
London;
Portsmouth;
Devonport
Portland COST
|
1988
refit in Devonport
|
1989
|
1990
Dartmouth
Training Squadron:
Devonport
Gibraltar
Suez
Aden
Cochin
Malaysia
Singapore
Hong Kong
(info
Stephen Goddard)
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