Operational History
During her career, Darwin has been deployed to the Persian Gulf on several occasions.
Darwin was deployed to East Timor as part of the Australian-led INTERFET peacekeeping taskforce from 19 September to 3 November 1999.
The ship was deployed to the Solomon Islands in 2001.
Darwin underwent a major upgrade and refit at Garden Island during 2007 and 2008; returning to service prior to November 2008.
On the morning of 13 March 2009, Darwin was one of seventeen warships involved in a ceremonial fleet entry and fleet review in Sydney Harbour, the largest collection of RAN ships since the Australian Bicentenary in 1988. The frigate did not participate in the fleet entry, but was anchored in the harbour for the review.
Following an overhaul of the RAN battle honours system, Darwin was granted three battle honours in 2010: "East Timor 1999", "Persian Gulf 2003-03", and "Iraq 2003".
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