 The ship operated in the conflict against the Netherlands over West Papua, and was later used as a floating detention centre for suspected communists during the Indonesian killings of 1965–1966.The cruiser was scrapped in 1971.The spy Harry Houghton wrote a book called "Operation Portland" after he was released from prison in which he outlined the explanation of Crabb's death which he claimed to have been given by his Russian handler, a man he knew as Roman, in July 1956.