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1980s: HMAS STUART [II] leads HMAS DERWENT [II], possibly off WA - RAN.
1514. It is likely this photo was taken in Jan. 1984, when HMAS STUART became the first major RAN warship in decades to be permanently based in Western Australia.
In his book ''The Royal Australian Navy : Historic Naval Events Year By Year', author Lew Lind chose this image to mark the March 1967 introduction of the RAN's 'Southern Cross' ensign, although the picture is actually taken the best part of 20 years later.
Astern, HMAS DERWENT has emerged here from her 1979-1983 half-life refit, with a much lower profile than previously, when the Dutch air warning radar was carried atop a tall foremast. It can now be seen astern, behind the 'golfball' gunnery radar.
Photo: RAN Official, it appears in the revised 1986 edition of Mr Lind's book, cited above, at both page 253 and on the back of the dustjacket cover.
1980s: HMAS STUART [II] leads HMAS DERWENT [II], possibly off WA - RAN.
1514. It is likely this photo was taken in Jan. 1984, when HMAS STUART became the first major RAN warship in decades to be permanently based in Western Australia.
In his book ''The Royal Australian Navy : Historic Naval Events Year By Year', author Lew Lind chose this image to mark the March 1967 introduction of the RAN's 'Southern Cross' ensign, although the picture is actually taken the best part of 20 years later.
Astern, HMAS DERWENT has emerged here from her 1979-1983 half-life refit, with a much lower profile than previously, when the Dutch air warning radar was carried atop a tall foremast. It can now be seen astern, behind the 'golfball' gunnery radar.
Photo: RAN Official, it appears in the revised 1986 edition of Mr Lind's book, cited above, at both page 253 and on the back of the dustjacket cover.