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1951-52 : One of the great panoramas of the immediate post WWII RAN fleet at Garden Island. Photo RAN.
4025. Taken from the cabin of the 250 ton hammerhead crane at Garden island , we date this photo as 1951, or early 1952. Reason: repairs are being made to the bow of HMAS AUSTRALIA [II] after a Dec. 4, 1951 mishap; and it is just before the cruiser HMAS HOBART [I] is towed by the little tug ex-HMAS ST GILES up to the Newcastle State Dockyard for her [subsequently aborted] three year modernisation.
Anyway, these are the ships we can see here in this wonderful photograph, hitherto inexplicably overlooked by naval publishers.
LOWER RIGHT: Bay Class frigates HMAS CULGOA [F408] and HMAS CONDAMINE [F698].
MID PICTURE: Tribal Class destroyer HMAS WARRAMUNGA [D123] alongside HMAS AUSTRALIA [II], which has had her bow removed. Note the man at the top of the floating scaffold [visible enlarged]. AUSTRALIA has had an accident. On December 4, 1951, she was swept around by a sudden strong burst of wind while berthing at Woolloomooloo and collided heavily with the British freighter SOMERSET. See a photo of the damage at pic NO. 4949, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/6308646965/
THIRD TIER: destroyer HMAS QUICKMATCH, not yet converted to an anti-submarine frigate, lies outside HMAS HOBART.
IN RESERVE, ATHOL BIGHT, UPPER RIGHT: Q Class destroyer HMAS QUALITY lies on the heavy cruiser HMAS SHROPSHIRE.
Unidentified BATH CLASS corvettes and RIVER CLASS frigates, far right.
It is also an interesting view of the waterfront at Garden Island.
Photo: RAN Historical, it is held in the RAN's Heritage Collection, ID NO. 02480.
A three-part COMPENDIUM of links to more than 200 HMAS AUSTRALIA [II] images on this Photostream begins at Pic Entry NO 5412, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/6627997309/in/photostream
1951-52 : One of the great panoramas of the immediate post WWII RAN fleet at Garden Island. Photo RAN.
4025. Taken from the cabin of the 250 ton hammerhead crane at Garden island , we date this photo as 1951, or early 1952. Reason: repairs are being made to the bow of HMAS AUSTRALIA [II] after a Dec. 4, 1951 mishap; and it is just before the cruiser HMAS HOBART [I] is towed by the little tug ex-HMAS ST GILES up to the Newcastle State Dockyard for her [subsequently aborted] three year modernisation.
Anyway, these are the ships we can see here in this wonderful photograph, hitherto inexplicably overlooked by naval publishers.
LOWER RIGHT: Bay Class frigates HMAS CULGOA [F408] and HMAS CONDAMINE [F698].
MID PICTURE: Tribal Class destroyer HMAS WARRAMUNGA [D123] alongside HMAS AUSTRALIA [II], which has had her bow removed. Note the man at the top of the floating scaffold [visible enlarged]. AUSTRALIA has had an accident. On December 4, 1951, she was swept around by a sudden strong burst of wind while berthing at Woolloomooloo and collided heavily with the British freighter SOMERSET. See a photo of the damage at pic NO. 4949, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/6308646965/
THIRD TIER: destroyer HMAS QUICKMATCH, not yet converted to an anti-submarine frigate, lies outside HMAS HOBART.
IN RESERVE, ATHOL BIGHT, UPPER RIGHT: Q Class destroyer HMAS QUALITY lies on the heavy cruiser HMAS SHROPSHIRE.
Unidentified BATH CLASS corvettes and RIVER CLASS frigates, far right.
It is also an interesting view of the waterfront at Garden Island.
Photo: RAN Historical, it is held in the RAN's Heritage Collection, ID NO. 02480.
A three-part COMPENDIUM of links to more than 200 HMAS AUSTRALIA [II] images on this Photostream begins at Pic Entry NO 5412, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/6627997309/in/photostream