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==Service==
===1982 Falklands War===

''Antrim'' and ''Glamorgan'' both served in the [[Falklands War]]; ''Antrim'' was the flagship of [[Operation Paraquet]], the recovery of [[South Georgia Island|South Georgia]] in April 1982. Her helicopter, a [[Westland Wessex]] HAS Mk 3 (nicknamed "Humphrey") was responsible for the rescue of 16 [[Special Air Service]] operators from Fortuna Glacier and the subsequent detection and disabling of the [[ARA Santa Fe (S-21)|Argentinian submarine ''Santa Fe'']]. In San Carlos Water, ''Antrim'' was hit by a 1,000&nbsp;lb (450&nbsp;kg) bomb which failed to explode. ''Glamorgan'', after many days on the "gun line" bombarding [[Port Stanley]] airfield, was hit by an Exocet launched from land at the end of the conflict. It destroyed her aircraft hangar and the port Seacat mounting. Her Navigating Officer's prompt reaction to visual detection of the Exocet narrowly averted a hit on the fatally vulnerable Seaslug magazine, by turning the ship so as to give as small a target as possible (the stern) to the incoming weapon. The ship suffered fourteen deaths, injuries, and was lucky to survive with extensive damage and flooding. Had the missile hit a few inches lower, the above waterline magazine would have blown in an explosive fireball and many more of the crew{{sfn|Hall (May 2008)|page=51}} might have been lost.

===Disposal===
All eight of the class had short Royal Navy careers, serving on average less than 16 years. Only ''London'' of the first batch would serve further (transferred to Pakistan) while the other three Batch 1 ships were decommissioned by 1980 with ''Hampshire'' being immediately scrapped in 1977 after cannibalization for spares, and ''Devonshire'' sunk in weapons testing in 1984. ''Kent'' would serve as a floating (though immobile) accommodation and training ship in [[Portsmouth]] harbour until 1996.  The four ships of Batch 2 however would be operated for 16 to 23 more years after sale to the [[Chilean Navy]], in which they all received extensive upgrades and modernisation.