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MORE MOTHBALL FLEET: April 1964, Tribal Class destroyer ARUNTA [I] at Athol Bight - NHSA.
1350. HMAS ARUNTA [I] had been paid off in 1957, and looks quite well kept up here, almost seven years later. Beside her are one of the 570-800 tons full load Reserve Class fleet tugs, with the Motor Stores Lighter 252 at her stern.
MSL 252 would later be recommissioned as the survey tender HMAS PALUMA [III].
ARUNTA would be towed away for breaking up in Japan on Feb. 12 1969, but famously turn on her beam ends and sink 60 miles East of Broken Bay in the early hours of the next morning.
Photo: Naval Historical Society of Australia, it appears on the NHSA's two-disc set 'Warships of the Past and Present' compiled by Graeme Andrews, an Honourary Life Member of the Society.
MORE MOTHBALL FLEET: April 1964, Tribal Class destroyer ARUNTA [I] at Athol Bight - NHSA.
1350. HMAS ARUNTA [I] had been paid off in 1957, and looks quite well kept up here, almost seven years later. Beside her are one of the 570-800 tons full load Reserve Class fleet tugs, with the Motor Stores Lighter 252 at her stern.
MSL 252 would later be recommissioned as the survey tender HMAS PALUMA [III].
ARUNTA would be towed away for breaking up in Japan on Feb. 12 1969, but famously turn on her beam ends and sink 60 miles East of Broken Bay in the early hours of the next morning.
Photo: Naval Historical Society of Australia, it appears on the NHSA's two-disc set 'Warships of the Past and Present' compiled by Graeme Andrews, an Honourary Life Member of the Society.