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HMAS VOYAGER [I] at Coffs Harbour, NSW, August 8, 1938 - Coffs Harbour City Library.
2715. Engines astern, the Admiralty 'V' Class destroyer HMAS VOYAGER reverses out from Coffs Harbour jetty, with the crown of South Coffs Island just visible to starboard behind her, and the escarpment of Corambirrie Point off the port quarter.
We know little about this photo, except that it is fairly rare, and has been little seen outside the northern NSW region where it was taken.
The photograph, and several others that follow, is stamped on the reverse, Forsyth Print, Coffs Harbour' and someone has taken the trouble to crop and tint this version of a wider photo to follow.
Commissioned into the RAN on October 11, 1933, the normal cruising activities of HMAS VOYAGER [I] and her sisters had been severely curtailed by the Great Depression.
In fact on April on April 14, 1936 VOYAGER had been paid off into reserve and remained in that status for two years, until recommissioned by LCDR James C. Morrow, RAN on April 26, 1938 - shortly before this photo was taken.
The Sea Power Centre Australia [RAN] webpage on the ship notes that she spent most of that year in NSW and Queensland waters, before sailing to Melbourne in late October.
Photo: Courtesy of the Coffs Harbour City Library and Regional Museum, Accession NO. mus 07-1611. Copies of this photo and those that follow have been acquired for the Unofficial RAN Centenary 1911-2011 photostream, with permission obtained for this usage. Thanks to Liz Thomas, Special Collections Librarian, for archival and permissions assistance.
HMAS VOYAGER [I] at Coffs Harbour, NSW, August 8, 1938 - Coffs Harbour City Library.
2715. Engines astern, the Admiralty 'V' Class destroyer HMAS VOYAGER reverses out from Coffs Harbour jetty, with the crown of South Coffs Island just visible to starboard behind her, and the escarpment of Corambirrie Point off the port quarter.
We know little about this photo, except that it is fairly rare, and has been little seen outside the northern NSW region where it was taken.
The photograph, and several others that follow, is stamped on the reverse, Forsyth Print, Coffs Harbour' and someone has taken the trouble to crop and tint this version of a wider photo to follow.
Commissioned into the RAN on October 11, 1933, the normal cruising activities of HMAS VOYAGER [I] and her sisters had been severely curtailed by the Great Depression.
In fact on April on April 14, 1936 VOYAGER had been paid off into reserve and remained in that status for two years, until recommissioned by LCDR James C. Morrow, RAN on April 26, 1938 - shortly before this photo was taken.
The Sea Power Centre Australia [RAN] webpage on the ship notes that she spent most of that year in NSW and Queensland waters, before sailing to Melbourne in late October.
Photo: Courtesy of the Coffs Harbour City Library and Regional Museum, Accession NO. mus 07-1611. Copies of this photo and those that follow have been acquired for the Unofficial RAN Centenary 1911-2011 photostream, with permission obtained for this usage. Thanks to Liz Thomas, Special Collections Librarian, for archival and permissions assistance.