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Mar. 1950: bleak day off NZ - Allen Porter.
1983. When life on an unsheltered flight deck is less than beer and skittles. The body language of the two men in the foreground looks absolutely chilled. The destroyer astern is HMAS WARRAMUNGA.
This is another photo taken during the joint RAN-RNZN fleet exercises in New Zealand Feb-March 1950.
At an anchorage in Wales before her delivery, photographer Allen Porter recalls, the wind over the deck was such that SYDNEY flew an aircraft off while stationary.
In another notable moment during a waterfront strike in Hobart, Captain Roy Dowling had berthed the carrier using the maneouvre known as 'pin-wheeling,' in which the engines of the carrier's aircraft, secured to the deck,. were used to maneourve the ship alongside.
An innovation perfected by the USN, it had been known to have been used in the Royal Navy, and HMAS MELBOURNE was later to twice perform the same feat with her Tracker aircraft, in Port Melbourne, and Auckland, while from memory SYDNEY [III] did it again in Fremantle. In the 1940s and 1950s Australia was a very strike-prone country, particularly on the waterfront, and 'pin-wheeling' was a usual tactic for a carrier captain to know.
Photo: Allen Porter N/A [Phot], RAN 1946-1952, with permission for the Unofficial RAN Centenary 1911-2011 Photostream.
Mar. 1950: bleak day off NZ - Allen Porter.
1983. When life on an unsheltered flight deck is less than beer and skittles. The body language of the two men in the foreground looks absolutely chilled. The destroyer astern is HMAS WARRAMUNGA.
This is another photo taken during the joint RAN-RNZN fleet exercises in New Zealand Feb-March 1950.
At an anchorage in Wales before her delivery, photographer Allen Porter recalls, the wind over the deck was such that SYDNEY flew an aircraft off while stationary.
In another notable moment during a waterfront strike in Hobart, Captain Roy Dowling had berthed the carrier using the maneouvre known as 'pin-wheeling,' in which the engines of the carrier's aircraft, secured to the deck,. were used to maneourve the ship alongside.
An innovation perfected by the USN, it had been known to have been used in the Royal Navy, and HMAS MELBOURNE was later to twice perform the same feat with her Tracker aircraft, in Port Melbourne, and Auckland, while from memory SYDNEY [III] did it again in Fremantle. In the 1940s and 1950s Australia was a very strike-prone country, particularly on the waterfront, and 'pin-wheeling' was a usual tactic for a carrier captain to know.
Photo: Allen Porter N/A [Phot], RAN 1946-1952, with permission for the Unofficial RAN Centenary 1911-2011 Photostream.