| Date |
To |
Place |
Comments |
| 1978 |
|
DED Devonport |
Tyne engines uprated to RM1C (first ship so fitted). Cdr Mike Gretton took command |
| |
|
Devonport
(Unscheduled return) |
Olympus engine change |
1st 1978 Newsletter  |
31 May |
Sailed
for Group 7 Deployment to the Western Atlantic and Pacific via
the Panama Canalwith HMS Blake & 5th Frigate Squadron |
Helecoptor Cruiser HMS Blake
Frigates HMS AmbuscadeHermoine, Juno, Leander
Nuclear Submarine Conqueror
Support ships RFA Tidespring, Green Rover, Stromness, Resurgent
|
| |
|
Brest (Brittany) |
visits either side of French Naval exercise Suroit |
| |
24 June |
Bermuda |
|
| |
|
Cartagena (Colombia ) |
|
| |
9 Jul |
Panama Canal |
7 hour transit (50 miles) |
2nd Aug
2nd 1978 Newsletter |
17 Aug |
Long Beach Los Angeles |
Long Beach outboard of Leander. Devonport FMG flew out and we carried out an AMP everyone had
12 days station leave.
Micky Birchall |
| |
|
San
Diego |
Gearbox
repair |
| Sept |
|
Nanaimo
Vancouver Island BC |
|
| |
|
Esquimalt
-Victoria Canada |
|
| Oct |
|
San
Francisco |
|
| |
|
Acapulco |
Towed Leander from Apaculpo to the Panama Canal |
| |
|
Panama Canal |
|
| 25
Nov |
27
Nov |
Nassau |
|
|
29 Nov |
|
South
Caicos |
|
| |
|
Chagaramas
|
Trinidad |
| Nov |
|
Key
West (overnight stop) |
Rodman
Naval Base |
| |
|
Devonport
for Christmas |
|
pink elephant di