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Jan. 2, 1942: the mystery destroyer of Entry 6221 is resolved ! HMAS VOYAGER [I] - 'Warship, via Ashley Moore.
6229. First, a hearty 'well done' to our sharp-eyed Photostream commentators Kim Dunstan in Melbourne and Richard Dennis in Falmouth UK, who both spotted something amiss in the identification of a blurred destroyer in Entry 6221 [below, eight images back] as the WWII HMAS STUART [I], and our consequent assumption that the photo was taken around 1944-45.
One would have really have to know your ships to have picked this, but both men supposed it was a 'V' and W' Class destroyer taken much earlier, around 1941-42.
They were right. The somewhat fuzzy image also stirred a memory in the mind of Sydney Contributor Ash Moore, who had seen it published somewhere, and finally came up with this much longer version of the photo as published in Australia WARSHIP Review magazine, Vol. II, 2001.
This version appeared in an unsigned article "Connecting the Island,' which details the joining of Garden Island to the Potts Point foreshores by the construction of the Captain Cook Graving dock between them between Jan. 1942 and March 1945.
Well done to Ashley too. With the added perspective the photo doesn't even look all that similar to the one we have shown. But the magazine brought with it the challenge of ANOTHER misidentification. It named the destroyer as HMAS VENDETTA [I], which, frankly, we were prepared to accept until both Kim and Richard brought up the objection that VENDETTA was in a Singapore dockyard at the date shown on this new version of the photograph - and, as we then recalled, was soon to undertake her epic tow back to Melbourne, mainly in the care of HMAS PING WO.
Richard had been saying from the start that the destroyer here was HMAS VOYAGER [I] and we shouldn't have doubted him. In the end, given the date, she is out only option.
We're now going to follow the images from the 'Connecting the Island' article for added interest.
Thanks for the special effort on this one, everyone. By the way, comments below reflect our working through it.
Photo: Australian WARSHIP review magazine, Vol. 11, 2001, via Ashley Moore, Sydney.
Jan. 2, 1942: the mystery destroyer of Entry 6221 is resolved ! HMAS VOYAGER [I] - 'Warship, via Ashley Moore.
6229. First, a hearty 'well done' to our sharp-eyed Photostream commentators Kim Dunstan in Melbourne and Richard Dennis in Falmouth UK, who both spotted something amiss in the identification of a blurred destroyer in Entry 6221 [below, eight images back] as the WWII HMAS STUART [I], and our consequent assumption that the photo was taken around 1944-45.
One would have really have to know your ships to have picked this, but both men supposed it was a 'V' and W' Class destroyer taken much earlier, around 1941-42.
They were right. The somewhat fuzzy image also stirred a memory in the mind of Sydney Contributor Ash Moore, who had seen it published somewhere, and finally came up with this much longer version of the photo as published in Australia WARSHIP Review magazine, Vol. II, 2001.
This version appeared in an unsigned article "Connecting the Island,' which details the joining of Garden Island to the Potts Point foreshores by the construction of the Captain Cook Graving dock between them between Jan. 1942 and March 1945.
Well done to Ashley too. With the added perspective the photo doesn't even look all that similar to the one we have shown. But the magazine brought with it the challenge of ANOTHER misidentification. It named the destroyer as HMAS VENDETTA [I], which, frankly, we were prepared to accept until both Kim and Richard brought up the objection that VENDETTA was in a Singapore dockyard at the date shown on this new version of the photograph - and, as we then recalled, was soon to undertake her epic tow back to Melbourne, mainly in the care of HMAS PING WO.
Richard had been saying from the start that the destroyer here was HMAS VOYAGER [I] and we shouldn't have doubted him. In the end, given the date, she is out only option.
We're now going to follow the images from the 'Connecting the Island' article for added interest.
Thanks for the special effort on this one, everyone. By the way, comments below reflect our working through it.
Photo: Australian WARSHIP review magazine, Vol. 11, 2001, via Ashley Moore, Sydney.