HMS Juno (F52)

Juno had a variety of deployments from commissioning in 1967 that culminated in a 1969 Far East Deployment, visiting a variety of ports in countries, including St Vincent, Panama, Peru, Chile, Tristan de Cunha, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Mombasa, Diego Suarez, Gan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, and Simonstown, returning to the UK towards the end of 1970.

The Beira Patrol was a deployment designed to stop oil reaching landlocked Rhodesia via the then Portuguese colony of Mozambique.

On 6 February, while on a Fishery Protection Patrol, Juno collided with ICGV Týr, which had already engaged several RN vessels.

[1] Following the damage received whilst undertaking fishery protection duties, Juno underwent a substantial refit in 1977, and following intensive workup at Portland in March 1978, joined the 5th Frigate Squadron for a nine-month deployment.

During the visit to Dominica in November 1978, Juno was the warship present when Princess Margaret formally handed over independence.