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HMS Bacchante (&
HMNZCS Wellington) Itinerary
All information gratefully
received. Come on! someone must know where she went for the rest of her career? (That includes you Kiwis for whom she became HMNZS
Wellington) (It seems I know more about her life as a Kiwi than as a Brit,
thanks to www.divewreck.co.nz/F69/HistoryF69.html).
Built by Vickers, Laid
down: Oct 27th 1966, Launched: Feb 29th 1969, Commissioned: Oct 17th 1969
| 1969
Oct 17th, Commissioning ceremony
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1970
Portland
SNFL
: Germany,
Holland,
Denmark,
Portugal,
Gibraltar,
Azores,
Bermuda,
USA
Canada.
Leave
SNFL
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1971
West
Indies
Bermuda
San
Juan
St
Kitts
Freeport
Key
West
Anguilla
Barbados
Trinidad
Jacksonville
Nassau
Virgin
Gorda
Tortola
Barbuda
St
Lucia
Mayport
Curacao
Transit
Panama Canal
San
Andres
Kingston
(Jamaica)
Miami
Azores
An
alternative itinerary
has
been offered for 1971:
Reykjavik
, Akyreyri,
Seydisfjord,
(
Iceland
).
Can
anyone clear this up?
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1972
Hartlepool,
Leith,
Bootle
STANAVFORLANT
(track a stricken Russian sub from Scotland to Norway)
Copenhagen,
Den
Helder,
Bordeaux
Chatham
An
alternative itinerary
has
been offered for 1972:
Augusta
,
Sicily
Tunis
,
Malta
Den
Helder
,
Holland
Bordeaux
Bootle,
Liverpool
Invergordon
Leith
,
Hartlepool
Portsmouth
Ostende
,
Belgium
Faslane
,
Copenhagen
Chatham
,
Portland
Scapa
Flow
, Rosyth
Gib
Seydisfjord,
(
Iceland
).
Can
anyone clear this up?
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1973
Portsmouth
Bermuda
Fort
Lauderdale
Norfolk,
Bahamas,
Jamaica,
Dominican
Republic, Puerto Rico,
Autec
range Andros, Trinidad,
Virgin
Gorda,
Curacao
Grenada
Saint
Lucia.
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| 1974
Ecuador
Peru
Portland
North Sea exercise
Copenhagen
Stockholm
Dec - Chatham
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1975
Portland
(ITN - News at 10)
Lisbon
Rosyth
Scapa
Flow
Rosyth
Hamburg
Portsmouth
Arctic,
(shadowed Sverdlov cruiser)
Stavangar
Bergen
Oslo
Brest
left
SNFL (May)
Lisbon
Gib
Rosyth
Scapa
Flow
Collision
with HMNS Holland, superficial damage
Rosyth
Chatham
for repair
Rosyth
Rothesay
Portland
Portsmouth,
families day
Bremen
Leith
Portsmouth
Ex
Ocean Safari
Chatham
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1976
Cod
war:
Rosyth
Icelandic
waters
Rosyth
Icelandic
waters
Faslane
Rosyth
Sunderland
Rosyth
Icelandic
waters (BBC Tonight team on board)
Chatham
Rosyth
Icelandic
waters
Portsmouth
Gib
Portsmouth
Wilmington,
Del
New
York, (bicentennial)
Portsmouth
Liverpool
Chatham
Portsmouth
Lisbon
Suez
canal
Mombasa
Karachi
Bahrain
Suez
canal
Alexandria
Gib
Portsmouth
Chatham
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1977
Entered
Gibraltar for refit – crew swap to Scylla.
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1978
Re-Commissioned Gibraltar
(crew swap from Achilles)
Portsmouth
Plymouth
Portland
Liverpool
Clyde Areas
Plymouth
SNFL:
-Zeebrugge
-Den Helder
-Portsmouth
Gibraltar
Taranto
Ajaccio
Toulon
Gibraltar
Fleet contingency ship:
- rescue fishing boat
in English Channel;
-Shadow the Kiev
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1979
Stavanger
Newcastle
Rosyth
Clyde
areas
Stornoway
Plymouth
SNFL:
Bermuda,
Fort Lauderdale,
Boston,
St John's
Nfndlnd,
Halifax Nova Scotia,
Quebec,
Reykjavik
Norway
Rosyth
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1980
Gibraltar
Sete, France
Corfu
Calgieri, Sardinia
Gibraltar
Liverpool
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1981
Persian
Gulf
Mombasa
Mogadishu (Somalia)
Oman
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1982
Portsmouth,
Gibraltar
(guard ship)
Ascension
Island Falkland Islands (San Carlos guard ship
Port Stanley guard ship)
Ascension
Portsmouth
commissioned
into the RNZN, 4th Oct
The
Azores
Bermuda
Port Canaveral
Panama City
Manzinillo (Mexico)
San Diego
Pearl Harbour
Pango Pango
Auckland
2nd Dec
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1983
extended refit
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| 1984
extended refit
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1985
extended refit
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1986
extended
refit
Trials
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1987
NZ
Sydney
NZ
Fiji
Western
Samoa
NZ
Australia,
work up
NZ
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1988
Campbell
Island
Auckland
island
NZ
Raoul
Island
Tonga
Western
Samoa
pago
Pago
Raoul
Island
NZ
Brisbane
Indonesia
Singapore
Australia
NZ
Sydney
NZ
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| 1989
New Zealand, Australia,
New Zealand, Vanuatu,
Truk (Micronesia),
Hong Kong,
Korea,
Kure (Japan),
Kagoshima (Japan)
Fukuoka (Japan)
Singapore,
Wewak (Papua New Guinea),
Solomon Islands, New Zealand,
Campbell Island, New Zealand,
Raoul Island,
Niue,
Rarotonga,
Pago Pago,
Raoul Island,
New Zealand
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1990
NZ
Westem
Samoa (Cyclone OFA relief),
New
Zealand, Vanuatu,
Papua
New Guinea,
Indonesia,
Pandang,
Singapore,
Bougainville
New
Zealand,
Australia,
New
Zealand
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1991
New
Zealand, Solomon Islands, Hong Kong,
Kuching,
Singapore,
Indonesia,
Australia,
New Zealand
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1992
NewZealand (refit)
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1993
New Zealand (refit and trials),
Australia (Workup), Singapore,
Brunei,
Australia,
New Zealand
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1994
New
Zealand,
Noumea,
Solomon
Islands, Vanuatu,
New
Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Indonesia,
Australia,
New
Zealand
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1995
New
Zealand, Australia (Workup), New Zealand, Australia,
Singapore,
Bahrain,
North Arabian Gulf
Kuwait,
Bahrain,
Dubai,
Bahrain,
Dubai
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1996
Dubai,
Bahrain,
Maldives,
Diego Garcia, Australia,
New Zealand (reflt) |
1997
New Zealand (refit and trials),
Raoul Island,
New Zealand |
1998
New Zealand, Australia,
New Zealand, Dunedin (for 150th Anniversary
Celebrations), Australia,
New Zealand, Australia,
Norfolk Island (for Medivac),
Australia,
Indonesia (for Medivac),
Guam,
Korea (for Intemational Fleet Review),
Japan,
China,
Manila,
Australia,
New Zealand |
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1999
New Zealand, Westem Samoa, Niue,
Raoul Island,
New Zealand, Wellington (Decommissioning
visit),
Devonport Naval Base |
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