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Visits thanks to John 'Bungy' Edwards (Nav's Yeo)

Date To Place Comments
 
Devonport (Unscheduled return) for Engine change
1st 1978 Newsletter 1978 Family 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)
20 Jul
2nd 1978 Newsletter 1978 2nd 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
    Panama Canal  
25 Nov 27 Nov Nassau
29 Nov South Caicos
Chagaramas Trinidad
Nov Key West (overnight stop) Rodman Naval Base
Devonport for Christmas
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