Early Operations
During the mid-1980s Manchester participated in the Royal Navy's Global 86 tour where a task group was detached to fly the flag in a round the world cruise and series of port visits.
In 1988, she saw service on Operation ARMILLA, in company with the frigates Jupiter and London. It was whilst on this deployment that the ship was visited by the then UK Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, who made a flying visit following her tour of India. The period also coincided with the end of the Iran-Iraq war and shooting down of the Iran Air Flight 655 by the Aegis missile cruiser USS Vincennes on the morning of 4 July 1988.
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