"Engadine"'s homeport throughout her career was Portland, Dorset. The most notable events in those 25 years were the 1976 crisis in Lebanon, where she was deployed as part of contingency planning to evacuate British citizens, the Silver Jubilee fleet review in 1977 when she followed and the Falklands War in which she was a helicopter support and refuelling ship in San Carlos Water. By the mid-1980s "Engadine" was becoming obsolescent so the container ship MV "Contender Bezant" was bought for conversion, becoming . "Engadine" was decommissioned in 1989 and sold to new owners in Greece . She arrived at Piraeus on 18 February 1990 after being bought by Greek owners for a new service which never materialised and the ship was laid up, name unchanged. She was sold for scrap and arrived at Alang for demolition on 7 May 1996 which commenced on 23 September 1996.