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RETROSPECTIVE. HMAS QUICKMATCH with destroyer HMS CARYSFORT in her wake, Feb-Mar 1961 - Photo Graeme K. Andrews.
3283. One of the Royal Navy's classic Ca-Class destroyers, the 1,710 ton HMS CARYSFORT turn into the wake of the fast anti-submarine frigate HMAS QUICKMATCH, showing one of the two formidable 3-barrel Limbo anti-submarine mortars on her after deck.
We believe this photo has been taken during the Commonwealth navies Exercise JET 1961, conducted in the Indian Ocean from Feb 26 to March 9, 1961.
Photo: Graeme K. Andrews, RAN 1955-1961, from a private disc with permission.
RETROSPECTIVE. HMAS QUICKMATCH with destroyer HMS CARYSFORT in her wake, Feb-Mar 1961 - Photo Graeme K. Andrews.
3283. One of the Royal Navy's classic Ca-Class destroyers, the 1,710 ton HMS CARYSFORT turn into the wake of the fast anti-submarine frigate HMAS QUICKMATCH, showing one of the two formidable 3-barrel Limbo anti-submarine mortars on her after deck.
We believe this photo has been taken during the Commonwealth navies Exercise JET 1961, conducted in the Indian Ocean from Feb 26 to March 9, 1961.
Photo: Graeme K. Andrews, RAN 1955-1961, from a private disc with permission.