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Feb. 14, 1946. Hobart-bound, HMAS SHROPSHIRE departing Melbourne after her first visit - Allan C. Green [1878-1954].
1934. On Feb 5-14, 1946, the heavy cruiser HMAS SHROPSHIRE made her first-ever visit to Melbourne, a city already thrumming with a heavy post-WWII concentration of Australian and British warships. Sailing from Sydney on Feb. 3 SHROPSHIRE and the Tribal Class destroyer HMAS BATAAN had first called at Flinders Naval Depot, where Capt. C.A.G. Nichols, RN, had discussed the drafts for the cruiser's future manning needs, before proceeding on to Melbourne on the 5th. SHROPSHIRE berthed at Inner East, Station Pier while BATAAN went to outer West, and they were joined two days later by HMAS AUSTRALIA [II], returning from war repairs in Britain and arriving in Melbourne on the 7th. The cruiser HMAS HOBART was also present during this time, as were the destroyer HMAS QUICKMATCH, sloop HMAS SWAN [II] and at least a dozen RAN River Class frigates and Bathurst Class corvettes at Williamstown, along with tghe British Pacific Fleet destroyer HMS TYRIAN. Berthed elsewhere in the Yarra River were the RN destroyers HMS URSA, HMS TENACIOUS, HMS TUMULT, and HMS UNDINE. Melbourne, like the other Australian State capitals and major ports, must have been a real Navy town. As the great dispersal of the British Pacific Fleet continued, many more major ships were passing through Port Phillip Bay. SHROPSHIRE and BATAAN departed on Feb. 14 for the traditional Navy call on the Hobart Regatta [another 'first' for SHROPSHIRE, while AUSTRALIA [II] left to return, at last, to her home port in Sydney. Our favourite photograph of HMAS SHROPSHIRE had been taken by Allan Green during this period at Inner East, Station Pier, with AUSTRALIA {ii} stern-to-stern behind her. It was Entry 438, here: www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/3927516863/in/photolis...
The ship movements and details given here are from Stan Nicholls's online HMAS SHROPSHIRE book, first published by the Naval Historical Society of Australia, Chapts 9, 10/1 10/2. The whole book can be accessed and read here:
This photo: Allan C. Green p[1878-1954], Green Collection, State Library of Victoria [La Trobe Library]. Image H91.108/650. Copyright expired, this educational non-commercial use permitted, as per discussions with SLV.
A three-part COMPENDIUM of the Photostream's 75 images of HMAS SHROPSHIRE begins at Pic NO. 5415, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/6646538921/in/photostream
Feb. 14, 1946. Hobart-bound, HMAS SHROPSHIRE departing Melbourne after her first visit - Allan C. Green [1878-1954].
1934. On Feb 5-14, 1946, the heavy cruiser HMAS SHROPSHIRE made her first-ever visit to Melbourne, a city already thrumming with a heavy post-WWII concentration of Australian and British warships. Sailing from Sydney on Feb. 3 SHROPSHIRE and the Tribal Class destroyer HMAS BATAAN had first called at Flinders Naval Depot, where Capt. C.A.G. Nichols, RN, had discussed the drafts for the cruiser's future manning needs, before proceeding on to Melbourne on the 5th. SHROPSHIRE berthed at Inner East, Station Pier while BATAAN went to outer West, and they were joined two days later by HMAS AUSTRALIA [II], returning from war repairs in Britain and arriving in Melbourne on the 7th. The cruiser HMAS HOBART was also present during this time, as were the destroyer HMAS QUICKMATCH, sloop HMAS SWAN [II] and at least a dozen RAN River Class frigates and Bathurst Class corvettes at Williamstown, along with tghe British Pacific Fleet destroyer HMS TYRIAN. Berthed elsewhere in the Yarra River were the RN destroyers HMS URSA, HMS TENACIOUS, HMS TUMULT, and HMS UNDINE. Melbourne, like the other Australian State capitals and major ports, must have been a real Navy town. As the great dispersal of the British Pacific Fleet continued, many more major ships were passing through Port Phillip Bay. SHROPSHIRE and BATAAN departed on Feb. 14 for the traditional Navy call on the Hobart Regatta [another 'first' for SHROPSHIRE, while AUSTRALIA [II] left to return, at last, to her home port in Sydney. Our favourite photograph of HMAS SHROPSHIRE had been taken by Allan Green during this period at Inner East, Station Pier, with AUSTRALIA {ii} stern-to-stern behind her. It was Entry 438, here: www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/3927516863/in/photolis...
The ship movements and details given here are from Stan Nicholls's online HMAS SHROPSHIRE book, first published by the Naval Historical Society of Australia, Chapts 9, 10/1 10/2. The whole book can be accessed and read here:
This photo: Allan C. Green p[1878-1954], Green Collection, State Library of Victoria [La Trobe Library]. Image H91.108/650. Copyright expired, this educational non-commercial use permitted, as per discussions with SLV.
A three-part COMPENDIUM of the Photostream's 75 images of HMAS SHROPSHIRE begins at Pic NO. 5415, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/6646538921/in/photostream