Prior to 2004,
Dasher was based at Devonport as the training vessel for
University Royal Naval Unit Bristol (URNUB).
Dasher and were sent to Cyprus ahead of
Operation Telic, the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, transported on board the CEC Mayflower. The
Royal Navy Cyprus Squadron was created in February 2003, to protect ships around the
Sovereign Base Areas in Cyprus, a vital staging post in the British logistic chain to Iraq. Both were fitted with
Kevlar armour and three
FN MAG general purpose machine guns, with an extra crew member (compared to the P2000s assigned to URNU duties) employed as a gunners yeoman. The Cyprus Squadron was disbanded in 2010 and
Dasher was assigned to the Faslane Patrol Boat Squadron, protecting the ballistic missile submarines at
HMNB Clyde. In September 2012, she swapped places with the more modern and returned to Devonport as the training vessel of Bristol URNU. From 2020 to 2022, she was posted to
Gibraltar Squadron. In 2025,
Dasher and five of her sister ships deployed to the Baltic for joint exercises with allied navies. As part of these exercises,
Dasher exercised with a submarine of the
Royal Swedish Navy. ==Notes==