Four other similar units were built at Ateliers et Chantiers de Bretagne (ACB) in Nantes for the Portuguese Navy under the class name João Belo.

In 1991, before the Operation Desert Storm, the vessel embarked additional equipment in Djibouti (Inmarsat, infrared camera, Mistral missiles, stealth tarpaulins, etc.).

Until the end of the year, the embargo control missions alternate with stopovers (Kenya, Seychelles, Pakistan, Gulf countries).

[4] In 1992, the previous year, the vessel carried out embargo control missions and several stopovers (Monbasa, Singapore, Colombo, Chittagong) before leaving Djibouti on Saturday June 13, 1992.

She was decommissioned on 29 June 1992 and sunk as target off the coast of Toulon by a combined naval air force during a Trident exercise on 24 May 2001.