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Ca. 1960: HMAS GASCOYNE, recommissioned as a survey frigate, in Hobart- Lindsay Rex.
1435. GASCOYNE, as mentioned earlier, had spent 13 postwar years laid up in reserve - from April 1946 to June 1959 - when she was brought back into service as a survey frigate. Fitted with a laboratory, depth-sounding apparatus and a helicopter platform on her quarterdeck, she conducted surveys for seven years around the coasts of Australia.
GASCOYNE paid off at Williamstown Naval Dockyard in February 1966, and was used as an alongside accomodation vessel for the crews of ships under refit, very much as HMAS TOBRUK and HMAS QUICKMATCH had been.
The frigate was declared for disposal in 1971, and broken up by the Fujita Salvage Company in Osaka the following year.
Photo Lindsay Rex, it is an Unofficial RAN Centenary 1911-2011 photostream acquisition from Rex/Priest, Down Under Ships Photographs, Melbourne. This usage allowed.
Ca. 1960: HMAS GASCOYNE, recommissioned as a survey frigate, in Hobart- Lindsay Rex.
1435. GASCOYNE, as mentioned earlier, had spent 13 postwar years laid up in reserve - from April 1946 to June 1959 - when she was brought back into service as a survey frigate. Fitted with a laboratory, depth-sounding apparatus and a helicopter platform on her quarterdeck, she conducted surveys for seven years around the coasts of Australia.
GASCOYNE paid off at Williamstown Naval Dockyard in February 1966, and was used as an alongside accomodation vessel for the crews of ships under refit, very much as HMAS TOBRUK and HMAS QUICKMATCH had been.
The frigate was declared for disposal in 1971, and broken up by the Fujita Salvage Company in Osaka the following year.
Photo Lindsay Rex, it is an Unofficial RAN Centenary 1911-2011 photostream acquisition from Rex/Priest, Down Under Ships Photographs, Melbourne. This usage allowed.