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Feb. 1963: Training frigate HMAS QUICKMATCH at the Hobart regatta - Lindsay Rex.
1892. Like the visit to Melbourne for Cup Week in November and attendance at the Australia Day regatta in Sydney [started 1837], an RAN presence and participation at the Royal Hobart Regatta in February each year is also traditional.
The three-day Hobart regatta, the island state's greatest sporting carnival, was started in 1838 by Governor Sir John Franklin, who was later to die with his expedition party seeking the fabled Northwest Passage through the Arctic.
This photograph is taken towards the end of HMAS QUICKMATCH's 21 years naval service as a WWII destroyer and 1950s conversion to a Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigate. She paid off at Williamstown on April 30, 1963, but was subsequently used for six or seven years there as an accommodation vessel for the crews of ships under refit and construction.
For a time during her last year in commission, HMAS QUICKMATCH had been under the command of Lieutenant Commander C.H.C. Spurgeon, RAN, a former Fleet Air Arm pilot, and the only pilot to have commanded an RAN combat vessel up to that time.
QUICKMATCH and the River Class frigate HMAS GASCOYNE were towed from Melbourne for scrapping in Moji, Japan, in 1972.
Photo: Lindsay Rex, of Rex-Priest, Down Under Ships Photos, Melbourne - an Unofficial RAN Centenary 1911-2011 photostream acquisition.
Feb. 1963: Training frigate HMAS QUICKMATCH at the Hobart regatta - Lindsay Rex.
1892. Like the visit to Melbourne for Cup Week in November and attendance at the Australia Day regatta in Sydney [started 1837], an RAN presence and participation at the Royal Hobart Regatta in February each year is also traditional.
The three-day Hobart regatta, the island state's greatest sporting carnival, was started in 1838 by Governor Sir John Franklin, who was later to die with his expedition party seeking the fabled Northwest Passage through the Arctic.
This photograph is taken towards the end of HMAS QUICKMATCH's 21 years naval service as a WWII destroyer and 1950s conversion to a Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigate. She paid off at Williamstown on April 30, 1963, but was subsequently used for six or seven years there as an accommodation vessel for the crews of ships under refit and construction.
For a time during her last year in commission, HMAS QUICKMATCH had been under the command of Lieutenant Commander C.H.C. Spurgeon, RAN, a former Fleet Air Arm pilot, and the only pilot to have commanded an RAN combat vessel up to that time.
QUICKMATCH and the River Class frigate HMAS GASCOYNE were towed from Melbourne for scrapping in Moji, Japan, in 1972.
Photo: Lindsay Rex, of Rex-Priest, Down Under Ships Photos, Melbourne - an Unofficial RAN Centenary 1911-2011 photostream acquisition.