Most of service as an Air Stores Support ship. Western Fleet Review 1969. On the Ark Royal "Sailor" Westlant deployment 1976. Silver Jubilee Fleet Review on 28 June 1977. Chartered to the US Navy in 1980 as USNS Sirius (T-AFS 8)and later purchased. Sirius was decommissioned on 1 July 2005, and transferred to the Texas Maritime Academy as the training ship Texas Clipper III but was returned to the reserve fleet in 2009.