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RETROSPECTIVE: Swim time at Trinca for HMAS QUICKMATCH and HMAS QUEENBOROUGH, March 10, 1961 - GKAC.

3284. At the end of Commonwealth Exercise JET 1961, escorting the carrier HMAS MELBOURNE [II], the RAN ships reached Trincomalee on March 10, 1961. The left for Bombay [Mumbai] and then Karachi four days later.

 

The men are enjoying a swim at Trincomalee here after the passage from Fremantle and intense period of exercising in the Indian Ocean.

 

We had a great colour photograph of QUEENBOROUGH in Bombay Harbour rom Kim Dunstan at pic NO. 2796, here:

 

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This photo: Graeme Andrews, RAN 1955-1968, from a private disc with permission.

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