[9][10] Close-in anti-aircraft protection was provided by a pair of Seacat (missile) launchers, while two twin QF 4.5 inch Mark V gun mounts were fitted forward.

[4] On 18 June 1963, Hampshire interrupted trials, to host the burial at sea of Admiral Cunningham, off the Nab Tower, near the Isle of Wight.

[12] In March 1964, as part of efforts to reinforce British forces in the Far East in response to the escalating Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation, Hampshire left Britain, arriving at Singapore on 13 April.

This was at a time the Labour Government was making severe defence cuts under pressure from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

She was cannibalised for spares to service her sister ships and subsequently sold for scrap in 1979, being broken up at Briton Ferry[17][18] by Thos.

The Hampshire appears in the UFO episode "Destruction", as it is used to secretly place sealed tanks filled with lethal gas from an unnamed war under water.