Clad,
On a personal note, I deployed there a couple of times, but that was under the SAR banner when the F3's were rotated out.
Whilst we did carry out mutual coop with our dark blue colleagues when we had to opportunity to do so, it didn't really amount to a great deal of traditional maritime work. I do seem to recall that we spent most of our time taking the permanent staff down there on trips around the islands, down to South Georgia and out to see the South Atlantic guard ship for a few photo opportunities.
That said, we did take the patrol of the EEZ from the Herc for a week on one occasion and finished in just over half a sortie what the Herc guys achieved in a week.
Most of the Kipper fleet who went down there would have jumped at the chance to fly from there, but as has already been mentioned it was a political hot potato! A shame really as it would have been a great det and we may have got our own dining table in the Mess!