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Circa 1943: HMAS TOWNSVILLE and sister again, along with a brainwave idea - Photo AWM.
5220. The RAN has always been very canny about publicity - we think its a great pity the opportunbity wasn't taken to gathered most if not all its 54 surviving BATHURST Class corvettes together in Sydney Harbour at one time in 1946, when most were being gathered into reserve there and in Melbourne after WWII anyway.
Expensivbe, but It would have been a great 'little ships' event and we think Sydney [or Melbourne] would have joined in celebrating the gallant service of these small vessels. It would also have produced unique photos for the RAN that would have been reproduced again and again over the years.
A small version of what we had in mind can be seen here. This is 10 corvettes at Williamstown, really just six visible from the low angle and the other four being just mast tops. Pic NO 815:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/4169550169/
As we say, a pity no one thought of it.
Photo: Naval Historical Collection, Australian War Memorial, imnage ID NO. 301592, listed copyright expired, public domain, it appeared in Ross Gillett's book 'Warships of Australia' [Rigby Australia 1977] p209.
Circa 1943: HMAS TOWNSVILLE and sister again, along with a brainwave idea - Photo AWM.
5220. The RAN has always been very canny about publicity - we think its a great pity the opportunbity wasn't taken to gathered most if not all its 54 surviving BATHURST Class corvettes together in Sydney Harbour at one time in 1946, when most were being gathered into reserve there and in Melbourne after WWII anyway.
Expensivbe, but It would have been a great 'little ships' event and we think Sydney [or Melbourne] would have joined in celebrating the gallant service of these small vessels. It would also have produced unique photos for the RAN that would have been reproduced again and again over the years.
A small version of what we had in mind can be seen here. This is 10 corvettes at Williamstown, really just six visible from the low angle and the other four being just mast tops. Pic NO 815:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/4169550169/
As we say, a pity no one thought of it.
Photo: Naval Historical Collection, Australian War Memorial, imnage ID NO. 301592, listed copyright expired, public domain, it appeared in Ross Gillett's book 'Warships of Australia' [Rigby Australia 1977] p209.