Originally Posted by
chevvron
The RAF certainly did have some Neptunes in the mid '50s; I think (may be wrong) they were a stopgap until Shackleton Mk 3s were available or maybe it was to provide cover as Sunderlands were withdrawn.
The RAF received 52 Neptunes under MDAP and they did indeed serve for a relatively short time, from 1952/53 to 1957.
Of those, 30 were scrapped or written off in accidents, 14 went back to the USA and then to Brazil, and 8 to the Argentine Navy.