Atlantic Causeway put into
HMNB Devonport and was taken in hand on 6 May 1982. She was converted to be able to carry and operate helicopters. A
hangar was fitted to her upper deck, and an improved system for delivering
aviation fuel. She sailed from Devonport 07.30 on 12 May carrying eight
Sea King HAS.2As of
825 Naval Air Squadron and twenty
Wessex HU.5s of
847 Naval Air Squadron. She sailed to the Exclusion Zone via
Ascension Island, arriving on 27 May, two days after her sister
Atlantic Conveyor had been hit and burnt out by
Exocet missiles. She then disembarked her aircraft and stores in
San Carlos Water from 28 May, remaining on station with the rest of the British fleet. She took on casualties from the
Royal Fleet Auxiliary ships and after they were hit by Argentinian bombs and abandoned on 8 and 9 June. Around 170 of those transferred were later returned to Britain aboard the
tankers British Trent and
British Test.
Atlantic Causeway entered
Port William on 17 June to unload further supplies, before leaving to return to Britain on 13 July. She had received around 4,000 helicopter landings and refuelled about 500 aircraft. ==Postwar==