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U.K. REQUEST: Larger version of HMAS QUEENBOROUGH in the Thames, Aug. 2, 1955, ABERCORN in foreground. Photo Roger Eastwood.
5054. A request from a London viewer has given us a chance to correct an old misjudgment. We posted a cropped version of this wonderful image by the late Roger Eastwood of HMAS QUEENBOROUGH in the Thames in 1955, not quite realizing it was a much lower resolution version than the same wider, uncropped image we have here.
QUEENBOROUGH is being passed by the Thames passenger launch ABERCORN here in 1955, and Ben of the River Thames Flickr photostream [rhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/31235337@N00/[ used to travel to work on her in the 1990s! Ben was seeking a larger image, we hope this fills that request.
As we have now mentioned many times, this visit by QUEENBOROUGH, which had been on training deployment to the Joint Anti-submarine Warfare School in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, was actually the first time a RAN vessel had been up the Thames.
No doubt for that reason, we eventually received or came across quite a few photos of this event including two here from the HMAS CERBERUS Museum, starting at pic NO 2206 :
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/4708928193/in/photostr...
Pic 2160 followed by 2161 here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/4700627444/
Another from the RAN Archives here at pic 4268:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/5591288437/
No more sightings of ferry launch ABERCORN unfortunately.
This photo: The late Roger Eastwood, courtesy of his son, Geoff Eastwood.
A two-part COMPENDIUM of the Photostream's 60+ images of HMAS QUEENBOROUGH begins at Entry NO. 5435, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/6684005275/in/photostream
U.K. REQUEST: Larger version of HMAS QUEENBOROUGH in the Thames, Aug. 2, 1955, ABERCORN in foreground. Photo Roger Eastwood.
5054. A request from a London viewer has given us a chance to correct an old misjudgment. We posted a cropped version of this wonderful image by the late Roger Eastwood of HMAS QUEENBOROUGH in the Thames in 1955, not quite realizing it was a much lower resolution version than the same wider, uncropped image we have here.
QUEENBOROUGH is being passed by the Thames passenger launch ABERCORN here in 1955, and Ben of the River Thames Flickr photostream [rhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/31235337@N00/[ used to travel to work on her in the 1990s! Ben was seeking a larger image, we hope this fills that request.
As we have now mentioned many times, this visit by QUEENBOROUGH, which had been on training deployment to the Joint Anti-submarine Warfare School in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, was actually the first time a RAN vessel had been up the Thames.
No doubt for that reason, we eventually received or came across quite a few photos of this event including two here from the HMAS CERBERUS Museum, starting at pic NO 2206 :
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/4708928193/in/photostr...
Pic 2160 followed by 2161 here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/4700627444/
Another from the RAN Archives here at pic 4268:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/5591288437/
No more sightings of ferry launch ABERCORN unfortunately.
This photo: The late Roger Eastwood, courtesy of his son, Geoff Eastwood.
A two-part COMPENDIUM of the Photostream's 60+ images of HMAS QUEENBOROUGH begins at Entry NO. 5435, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/6684005275/in/photostream