Up until 2024 she was based at Mar del Plata,[3] and had for many years been conducting fishery patrol duties in the Argentine exclusive economic zone where she captured several trawlers.

The sale was embargoed by United Nations Security Council Resolution 418 during sea trials, and the ships were sold to Argentina instead.

A third ship was ordered and entered service as ARA Granville on 22 June 1981,[1] in time for the Falklands War the following year.

There are minor differences in equipment fit compared to her sisters, for instance Granville has French Degaie decoys rather than the British Corvus chaff launchers.

[1] On 28 March 1982 she sailed with her sister ARA Drummond and took up station northeast of Port Stanley to cover the main amphibious landings on 2 April.