Launched Belfast 4.5.90. Damaged by IRA bomb. Builder's sea trials June 1992. Removed to Birkenhead for final fitting out and eventually to Portsmouth, entering service in early 1994. Op Bolton 1998. Fitted Phalanx 1998. Op Telic 2003. In 2007, the ship was placed in 'extended readiness' at Portsmouth, and then towed to Liverpool in October 2008 to await refit at Birkrnhead which was completed in November 2009. Op Aquila 2010-12.