COMPENDIUM: 350 Photostream images of HMAS MELBOURNE [II]. Pt 5. Sea Venom flight deck, 1960s.

5448. We continue with a repeat of a busy image: the flight deck late in the FAW Mk53 Sea Venom era, with a Westland Wessex on the stern. The Wessex came into service in 1962.

 

While this is an image we have now seen in a couple of sources it is credited to Reg Howden in Stephen Lewis's limited edition book Vietnam' [My Vietnam Trust, Adelaide 2004] p170.

 

The website for the Stephen Lewis book can be seen here: www.myvietnam.com.au/voyages/

 

THE HMAS MELBOURNE [II] 350 IMAGES COMPENDIUM - Part Five.

 

 

Pic 3092: Refuelling HMAS WARRAMUNGA [II] from RAN 1961 Golden Jubilee booklet.

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Pic3093: Sea Venom launch, from RAN 1961 Golden Jubilee booklet

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Pic 3098: Gannet launch and Sycamore rescue helicopter in RAN 1961 Golden Jubilee booklet.

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Pic 3105. Familiar 1950s newspaper recruiting ad photo of MELBOURNE launching Gannet and refuelling HMAS QUICKMATCH.

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Pic 3111. Loading Grumman Tracker ASW aircraft at San Diego, Oct 1967.

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Pic 3 112 Westland Wessex Mk31A helicopters leave MELBOURNE heading for the volcano calderas of Rabaul, New Britain, probably Aug. 21, 1964.

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Pic 3113. MELBOURNE’S Westland Wessex Mk31As sweep in closed to Rabaul’s Mt Tarangunan volcano.

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Pic 3114. Prob. August 21, 1964, and Fairey Gannet flypast over Rabaul that unsettled locals

at a time of pre-Self Government and Independence tensions.

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Pic 3128 VOYAGER [II], MELBOURNE [II] and VENDETTA [II] in close company, in colour.

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Pic 3129. Excellent HMAS MELBOURNE [II] and A4 G Skyhawks painting.

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Pic 3130. MELBOURNE [II]’s decommissioning ceremony at Garden Island, June 30, 1982.

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Pic 3155. GREAT COLOUR IMAGE of departure for Operation SANDGROPER, Aug 18, 1980

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Pic 3184. RARE 1956 COLOUR IMAGE of MELBOURNE [II] and SYDNEY [III] together as carriers at sea.

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Pic 3185. Maintenance crew work on a Gannet’s Double Mamba engines.

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Pic 3186 rare 1958 COLOUR of MELBOURNE flight deck in the China Strait, Papua New Guinea, by Graeme Andrews.

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Pic 3187, Melbourne in colour, mid-Pacific 1958, by Graeme Andrews.

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Pic 3262: Hangar concert on MELBOURNE, with a firsthand account. Graeme Andrews.

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Pic 3263: Pipe dream in the after machinery space – photo Graeme Andrews.

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Pic 3264. A twin bofors mount on MELBOURNE and its performance statistics. Graeme Andrews.

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Pic 3296: Filming ‘On The Beach’ at Williamstown with Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Stanley Kramer et al, and an eyewitness account by Graeme Andrews .

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Pic 3297. Another mess deck scene on MELBOURNE – the other side of ‘glamour’

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Pic 3298: Refuelling HMAS VAMPIRE [II] at sea in the mid 1960s.

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Pic 3299 RARE: High speed Gannet crash landing without flaps, blown off by its own rockets. A picture and story by Kimberley Dunstan.

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Pic 3300. An Open Day at Brisbane August 1961.

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Pic 3301. Immaculate Gannets lined up for an Admiral’s inspection, date and place unknown.

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Pic 3430. Film celebrities Gregory Peck, Director Stanley Kramer, and Anthony Perkins stroll the flight deck during the making of ‘On The Beach.’

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Pic 3463, grass skirt welcome to Hawaii, June 11 1958.

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Pic 3464. MELBOURNE WITH ‘Aloha’ deck sign on first arrival in Pearl Harbour, June 11, 1958.

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Pic 3465. Docking Pearl Harbour March 22, 1077 with new Trackers after Nowra hangar arson.

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Pic 3466. March 9, 1970, departing Garden Island for SE Asia Exercise SEA ROVER.

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Pic 3492; A Fairey Gannet on display during an Open Day in Brisbane, August 1961.

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Pic 3504; August 1982, paid off, but quarterdeck used for a Canadian trainee’s graduation ceremony

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Pic 3505. A leafy glimpse of MELBOURNE’s superstructure in reserve.

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Pic 3511: MELBOIURNE leaves Sydney Oct 1981 unknowingly on her last service voyage – Collection of Geoff and Roger Eastwood.

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Pic 3512 Another view of MELBOURNE’S last departure under her own steam, Oct 1981, Geoff and Roger Eastwood Collection.

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Pic 3524. At Honiara in the Solomon Islands, April 8-10, 1980. Nick Thorne.

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