HMS JUPITER – PROGRAMME 1977/78
Sailed
Exercise Locked Gate - Jan/Feb 77
Roosevelt Roads,
At anchor off Virgin Gorda - banyan - 19-20 Mar 77 Exercise Jolly Green Giant - off Vieques - Mar 77 Passed "HMS
Diamond Rock" off
At anchor off
Hillsborough, Carriacou (
Crossing the Line
-
Funchal,
Devonport - 23 May-
At anchor in
Silver Jubilee
Review anchorage,
HM The Queen's Silver Jubilee Review, Spithead - 28 Jun 77 Cardiff - 30 Jun-4 Jul 77 Exercise Highwood (northern waters) - Jul 77 Devonport - 5-6 Jul 77 (withdrew from exercise with defects) Rosyth, Fife - 18-20 Jul 77 and 29 Jul-4 Aug 77 (defects) Firth of Clyde COCQEX running and/or at a buoy off Rothesay - 5-6 Aug 77 and 9-12 Aug 77 and 15-19 Aug 77 Faslane naval base - 6-9 Aug 77 and 13-15 Aug 77 Devonport - 21 Aug-10 Oct 77 Portsmouth - 14-17 Oct 77 and 19-24 Oct 77 and 25-26 Oct 77 Portland - 25-26 Oct 77 Gibraltar - 31 Oct-1 Nov 77 and 1-2 Nov 77 and 3-7 Nov 77 and 8-14 Nov 77 and 17-23 Nov 77 Gibraltar Guardship - Nov 77 Funchal, Madeira - 25-28 Nov 77 Devonport - 2-5 Dec 77 and 15 Dec 77-9 Jan 78 Portsmouth - 9-12 Dec 77 Middlesbrough (adopted town) - 13-20 Jan 78 Devonport - 22 Jan-6 Mar 78 and 9-13 Mar 78 and 16-20 Mar 78 Portland areas - COST (work-up) - Mar/Apr 78 Portland - 23 Mar-3 Apr 78 and 7-10 Apr 78 and 14-17 Apr 78 Zeebrugge, Belgium (for 60th anniversary of St George's Day Raid, 1918) - 21-25 Apr 78 Devonport - 26-29 Apr 78 Exercise Open Gate - Apr/May 78 Gibraltar - 4-5 May 78 (defects) Setubal, Portugal - 11-16 May 78 Devonport - 18 May-7 Jun 78 and 8-15 Jun 78 (towed back in: main steam failure) Portsmouth - 16-19 Jun 78 Staff College Sea Days - 19-22 Jun 78 Devonport - 23-27 Jun 78 Rosyth Navy Days - 29 Jun-2 Jul 78 JMC 783 - Jul 78 At anchor off Invergordon - 8-9 Jul 78 Rosyth - 14-18 Jul 78 Copenhagen, Denmark - 20-25 Jul 78 Leith - 28-31 Jul 78 At a buoy off Rothesay - 3-4 Aug 78 Faslane - 5 Aug 78
(Lieutenant May left the ship – end of diary entries ...)
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