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Feb. 3, 1954: HMAS AUSTRALIA [II] dressed for Queen Elizabeth [II]'s arrival in Sydney - RAN, via Ronnie Bell, Scotland.
6216. It's the start of the historic 1954 Royal Tour of Australia, a moment of almost unprecedented excitement in the country, and HMAS AUSTRALIA [II], along with the aircraft carrier HMAS VENGEANCE, destroyer HMAS ANZAC [II] and frigate QUICKMATCH has met and escorted the Royal Yacht GOTHIC down the East Coast of Australia. The heavy cruiser is seen here with an Admiral's flag on her foremast. The cliunker-built seaboat in the foreground has ';Liverpool' written on it aft. Perhaps it is from GOTHIC?
We are also reminded, looking at John Bastock's 1975 limited edition book 'Australia's Ships of War,' that AUSTRALIA's funnels were shortened again by 5ft at the end of WWII - so the funnels were raised 15ft in 1928 after her trials, due to smoke interference to the aft control position, and shortened again to a lesser extent after WWII.
By the way, we strive to get our captions right on the Photostream, and follow through with many corrections as they are pointed out to us. We have ourselves now realized that we had misinterpreted a couple of earlier images, one being pIc NO. 4570, which shows VENGEANCE similarly dressed ship and looking her best for the Queen's arrival in Sydney - a sort of companion to this image.
That photo with the corrected caption is here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/5729136157/
Similarly, we had seriously misinterpreted a photo of HMAS AUSTRALIA [II]'s final departure from Sydney Harbour on Saturday, March 26, 1955. We had earlier misinterpreted this 1955 farewell as a 1946 welcome back from Britain. It was at pic NO. 2782, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/4925778399/
This photo: RAN, Navy Heritage Collection image NO 04620, it again comes to us via Ronnie Bell of Livingston, Scotland.
A three-part COMPENDIUM of links to more than 200 HMAS AUSTRALIA [II] images on this Photostream begins at Pic Entry NO 5412, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/6627997309/in/photostream
Feb. 3, 1954: HMAS AUSTRALIA [II] dressed for Queen Elizabeth [II]'s arrival in Sydney - RAN, via Ronnie Bell, Scotland.
6216. It's the start of the historic 1954 Royal Tour of Australia, a moment of almost unprecedented excitement in the country, and HMAS AUSTRALIA [II], along with the aircraft carrier HMAS VENGEANCE, destroyer HMAS ANZAC [II] and frigate QUICKMATCH has met and escorted the Royal Yacht GOTHIC down the East Coast of Australia. The heavy cruiser is seen here with an Admiral's flag on her foremast. The cliunker-built seaboat in the foreground has ';Liverpool' written on it aft. Perhaps it is from GOTHIC?
We are also reminded, looking at John Bastock's 1975 limited edition book 'Australia's Ships of War,' that AUSTRALIA's funnels were shortened again by 5ft at the end of WWII - so the funnels were raised 15ft in 1928 after her trials, due to smoke interference to the aft control position, and shortened again to a lesser extent after WWII.
By the way, we strive to get our captions right on the Photostream, and follow through with many corrections as they are pointed out to us. We have ourselves now realized that we had misinterpreted a couple of earlier images, one being pIc NO. 4570, which shows VENGEANCE similarly dressed ship and looking her best for the Queen's arrival in Sydney - a sort of companion to this image.
That photo with the corrected caption is here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/5729136157/
Similarly, we had seriously misinterpreted a photo of HMAS AUSTRALIA [II]'s final departure from Sydney Harbour on Saturday, March 26, 1955. We had earlier misinterpreted this 1955 farewell as a 1946 welcome back from Britain. It was at pic NO. 2782, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/4925778399/
This photo: RAN, Navy Heritage Collection image NO 04620, it again comes to us via Ronnie Bell of Livingston, Scotland.
A three-part COMPENDIUM of links to more than 200 HMAS AUSTRALIA [II] images on this Photostream begins at Pic Entry NO 5412, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/6627997309/in/photostream