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BOATWORK SERIES: RANC mishipmen lowered away at Garden Island, 1984 - Stephen Hood.
4840. Welcome to a time capsule of one morning at Garden Island, Sydney in early 1984. Young midshipmen from the Royal Australian Naval College, HMAS CRESWELL at Jervis Bay are embarked on their training ship, HMAS JERVIS BAY [I] at Garden Island, Sydney, and about to leave on a training cruise to New Zealand.
In the days before departure, however, groups of young midshipmen are lowered away down the towering sides of the 8,770 ton former ANL-owned ro-ro passenbger and vehicle ferry for boatwork training around the Garden Island naval base, HMAS KUTTABUL, or Fleet Base East as it is also called.
We think the exercise provides glimpses the ships alongside in 1984 which now - more than 27 years later - become more worth preserving and viewing with every year that passes.
Photo: These images have been kindly offered to us for choice by Stephen Hood, RANC 1982-1985, RAN 1982-1998, who was 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: RANC mishipmen lowered away at Garden Island, 1984 - Stephen Hood.
4840. Welcome to a time capsule of one morning at Garden Island, Sydney in early 1984. Young midshipmen from the Royal Australian Naval College, HMAS CRESWELL at Jervis Bay are embarked on their training ship, HMAS JERVIS BAY [I] at Garden Island, Sydney, and about to leave on a training cruise to New Zealand.
In the days before departure, however, groups of young midshipmen are lowered away down the towering sides of the 8,770 ton former ANL-owned ro-ro passenbger and vehicle ferry for boatwork training around the Garden Island naval base, HMAS KUTTABUL, or Fleet Base East as it is also called.
We think the exercise provides glimpses the ships alongside in 1984 which now - more than 27 years later - become more worth preserving and viewing with every year that passes.
Photo: These images have been kindly offered to us for choice by Stephen Hood, RANC 1982-1985, RAN 1982-1998, who was 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...