HMS '' Glamorgan '' spent many months in late 1982 being refitted and repaired . Two sets of STWS-1 triple anti-submarine torpedo tubes , capable of launching US Mark 46 torpedoes were fitted , while the ship 's Seacat launchers were removed , replaced by two Bofors 40 mm guns . The Wessex helicopter was replaced by a Westland Lynx . The ship returned to service in 1983 . Her last active deployment for the Royal Navy was in 1983/4 and she was sent on the Armilla Patrol with HMS '' Brazen '' . She was originally to sail to the Far East . '' En route '' she docked at Gibraltar where the ship 's crew were granted shore leave but , within a few hours and with members of her crew still enjoying a ' run ashore ' she was back at sea . The bases of the US Marines and French forces in Beirut had been bombed by suicide bombers on 23 October and there were fears that British interests were at risk . Absent crew members were finally rounded up and flown aboard by the ship 's Lynx . As the ship had a greater range than the '' Brazen '' she set off ahead and raced across the Mediterranean to the coast of Lebanon to evacuate the British peace-keeping troops with her Lynx . With this completed she rejoined the rest of her group and proceeded to the Straits of Hormuz
bombed by suicide bombers
1983 Beirut barracks bombings
HMS Glamorgan (D19)