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Oct 5, 2013: 'Let there be light' HMAS DARWIN obliging - ASIS Cassie McBride, RAN.
6685. The Oliver Hazard Perry/Adelaide Class missile frigate HMAS DARWIN participates in the International Fleet Review ' s Saturday night pyrotechnics and fireworks spectacular, marking the centenary of the RAN's first Fleet Entry into Sydney in October 1913.
On the precedent of its 50th and 75th anniversary reviews, held respectively in 1961 and 1986, one might have expected this main celebration of the RAN's Centenary to have been held in 2011.
The marker for the earlier re views had been King Geirge the V's Royal Assent and Proclamation of the Royal Australian Navy on July 10, 1911, replacing the former Commonwealth Naval Forces as an entity,
The Royal Assent was observed in 2011 with various low key events, but it became clear that in terms of being seen as a seminal event and marker, in recent it had somewhat fallen out of favour.
In 1911, the Australian public had been relatively unmoved by the Royal Assent, but it had responded with enormous pride and enthusiasm to the arrival of its own battlecruiser, joined by three cruisers and three destroyers, two years later.
In Australia, Navy Week has been celebrated in the first week of October pretty much ever since. For these reasons, it now seems that the most important celebrations will henceforth be based on the 1913 actual arrival of HMAS AUSTRALIA [I] in Sydney Harbour, than the stroke of King's pen in London in 1922.
Photo: ASIS Cassie McBride, RAN.
Oct 5, 2013: 'Let there be light' HMAS DARWIN obliging - ASIS Cassie McBride, RAN.
6685. The Oliver Hazard Perry/Adelaide Class missile frigate HMAS DARWIN participates in the International Fleet Review ' s Saturday night pyrotechnics and fireworks spectacular, marking the centenary of the RAN's first Fleet Entry into Sydney in October 1913.
On the precedent of its 50th and 75th anniversary reviews, held respectively in 1961 and 1986, one might have expected this main celebration of the RAN's Centenary to have been held in 2011.
The marker for the earlier re views had been King Geirge the V's Royal Assent and Proclamation of the Royal Australian Navy on July 10, 1911, replacing the former Commonwealth Naval Forces as an entity,
The Royal Assent was observed in 2011 with various low key events, but it became clear that in terms of being seen as a seminal event and marker, in recent it had somewhat fallen out of favour.
In 1911, the Australian public had been relatively unmoved by the Royal Assent, but it had responded with enormous pride and enthusiasm to the arrival of its own battlecruiser, joined by three cruisers and three destroyers, two years later.
In Australia, Navy Week has been celebrated in the first week of October pretty much ever since. For these reasons, it now seems that the most important celebrations will henceforth be based on the 1913 actual arrival of HMAS AUSTRALIA [I] in Sydney Harbour, than the stroke of King's pen in London in 1922.
Photo: ASIS Cassie McBride, RAN.