Circa 1958: From the recruiting ads of the 1950s, MELBOURNE [II] and QUICKMATCH - RAN historical.

5209. Such an old favourite, because many of us of a certain age and Navy interest grew up with it - another of those official photos used over and again in RAN recruiting advertisements in the late 1950s. Also, of course, there are two iconic ships of the 1950s in it.

 

We are in the process of obtaining - mainly through acquisitions - better and higher resolution copies of some of our earlier images, and these will be appearing shortly, along with a number of great new high-res pics, in the holiday season.

 

This is a higher-res. version however, from the RAN Archives of an image we had previously at pic NO. 3105 here:

 

www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/5047242700/

 

Again, we've done a little repair, and this image is more like that which people will remember from the old newspaper ads than the scan back at 3105. We will leave that there however, as the 'Old Photo' scan technique gives it a different kind of look and clarity.

 

Photo: RAN Historical, Navy Heritage Collection image ID NO. 01180, it appeared in the RAN'sGolden Jubilee booklet of 1961, in Ross Gillett's 'Warships of Australia' [Rigby Australia, 1977] p95; and in many other places since.

 

A COMPENDIUM of links to some 350 images of HMAS MELBOURNE [II] on this Photostream begins at Pic 5444 and extends over seven entries. It starts here:

 

www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/6707592179/in/photostream

 

Done