HMS JUPITER – PROGRAMME 1977/78

Sailed Plymouth – 24 Jan 77

Exercise Locked Gate - Jan/Feb 77

Gibraltar - 3-4 Feb 77 (for repairs to the economiser, having broken off from the exercise!)

Gibraltar - 9-14 Feb 77

Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico - 26-28 Feb 77 and 4-16 Mar 77 and 17-18 Mar 77 (owing to Seacat gyro defect) and 21-22 Mar (ditto)

At anchor off Virgin Gorda - banyan - 19-20 Mar 77

Exercise Jolly Green Giant - off Vieques - Mar 77

Passed "HMS Diamond Rock" off Martinique - 25 Mar 77

At anchor off Hillsborough, Carriacou ( Grenadines ) - 26-27 Mar 77

Castries , St. Lucia - 28 Mar- 1 Apr 77

Crossing the Line - 7 Apr 77

Rio de Janeiro , Brazil - 14-18 Apr 77

Bahia ( Salvador ), Brazil - 25-30 Apr 77

Funchal, Madeira - 13-18 May 77

Devonport - 23 May- 21 Jun 77

At anchor in Weymouth Bay - 22-23 Jun 77

Silver Jubilee Review anchorage, Spithead - 24-29 Jun 77

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 ...)