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BOATWORK SERIES, around Garden Island, 1984. The long way down - Stephen Hood.
4843. HMAS JERVIS BAY's boats are diesel-equpped, access to the engine already readied for use here.
Our memory is that, with aircraft carrier HMAS MELBOURNE [II] paid off on June 30, 1982, and about to be sold in 1985, this was a period when the RAN was still absorbing the shock of not having a major combat warship as flagship for almost the first time since its inception [Town Class cruisers had carried the role after the scuttling of HMAS AUSTRALIA [I] in 1922].
Whatever residual hopes the RAN may still have held at this time for the restoration of the fixed wing Fleet Air Arm, it was destined to remain a destroyer escort, frigates and submarines Navy for decades until the present.
The RAN flagship in 1984 was 10,500-15,500 tons [fl] escort maintenance ship HMAS STALWART [II].
Photo:Images kindly offered for choice by Stephen Hood, RANC 1982-1985, RAN 1982-1998, one of the midshipmen on the boatwork exercise. A more complete set of images, both of shipmates and sightseeing scenes as the ship moved around the New Zealand coasts and ports, can be seen on Stephen's photostream, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/gdaymateowyagoin/sets/7215762466900...
BOATWORK SERIES, around Garden Island, 1984. The long way down - Stephen Hood.
4843. HMAS JERVIS BAY's boats are diesel-equpped, access to the engine already readied for use here.
Our memory is that, with aircraft carrier HMAS MELBOURNE [II] paid off on June 30, 1982, and about to be sold in 1985, this was a period when the RAN was still absorbing the shock of not having a major combat warship as flagship for almost the first time since its inception [Town Class cruisers had carried the role after the scuttling of HMAS AUSTRALIA [I] in 1922].
Whatever residual hopes the RAN may still have held at this time for the restoration of the fixed wing Fleet Air Arm, it was destined to remain a destroyer escort, frigates and submarines Navy for decades until the present.
The RAN flagship in 1984 was 10,500-15,500 tons [fl] escort maintenance ship HMAS STALWART [II].
Photo:Images kindly offered for choice by Stephen Hood, RANC 1982-1985, RAN 1982-1998, one of the midshipmen on the boatwork exercise. A more complete set of images, both of shipmates and sightseeing scenes as the ship moved around the New Zealand coasts and ports, can be seen on Stephen's photostream, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/gdaymateowyagoin/sets/7215762466900...