Vendémiaire was deployed to East Timor as part of the Australian-led INTERFET peacekeeping taskforce from 20 September to 17 November 1999. Vendémiaire and her sister ship Nivose are reasonably frequent visitors to Wellington. The ship went on a tour of Chinese ports in 2011, stopping at Canton, Chiang Tao, Hong Kong and Shanghai. It was opened to the public 17-4-11 in Hong Kong. In October 2013 participated in the International Fleet Review 2013 in Sydney, Australia.