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July, 1919: HMS NEW ZEALAND in Sydney with other RAN ship stories - ANMM.
6496. When the Australian National Maritime Museum asked for the name of this unidentified capital ship shown on their Flickr Photostream, there could only have been one of two possible answers: HMS NEW ZEALAND or HMAS AUSTRALIA [I], the only two Indefatigable Class battlecruisers [which this is] ever to pass through Sydney Heads.
Knowing this, as it happens, the Kookaburra immediately dashed forward and blurted out the wrong answer: HMAS AUSTRALIA, he said - June 1920, and wearing the Union Jack at her flagstaff and mainmast because she is carrying the Prince of Wales.
True. You can read this somewhere over on the ANMM photostream somewhere right now.
What absolute trash. Total nonsense.
Since we are among friends here, we feel, may we tell you that the Kookaburra sometimes teeters on the edge of the certifiable. It runs in the family, you can tell by their laughter - but this is as close to outright losing his marbles as he has recently got.
What we have here is the battlecruiser HMS NEW ZEALAND, of course, and correctly wearing the Union Jack, plus a full admiral's flag on her foremast because she has brought Admiral Lord Admiral John Jellicoe and Lady Jellicoe to Australia as part of Amiral Jellicoe's world tour aimed at reporting to the Admiralty on the future of the Dominion Navies [note temporary accommodation on the maindeck abaft the bridge superstructure. .
It is July 1919, probably the first week or so of that month, because astern of them is the J Class submarine J5 alongside the cruiser HMAS BRISBANE [I], which had towed J5 all the way to Australia from the Red Sea, where the boat's engine had broken down.
The rest of the J Class submarine flotilla is still plugging along somewhere in northern Australian waters with cruiser HMAS SYDNEY [I] and the depot ship HMAS PLATYPUS as their escorts. They will arrive in Sydney on July 15, more than two weeks behind J5 and BRISBANE who got well ahead for some reason.
Over on the right of the picture here is the old cruiser HMAS ENCOUNTER.
Well, while temporarily sane, we feel, we'd better pop over and fix things up on the ANMM website shortly. The Prince of Wales. Prince Edward, didn't travel around Australia on HMAS AUSTRALIA in 1920, by the way. He came on HMS RENOWN.
Photo: Australian National Maritime Museum, it is out of copyright, and appears on the ANMM's Flickr Photostream, which can be seen here:
July, 1919: HMS NEW ZEALAND in Sydney with other RAN ship stories - ANMM.
6496. When the Australian National Maritime Museum asked for the name of this unidentified capital ship shown on their Flickr Photostream, there could only have been one of two possible answers: HMS NEW ZEALAND or HMAS AUSTRALIA [I], the only two Indefatigable Class battlecruisers [which this is] ever to pass through Sydney Heads.
Knowing this, as it happens, the Kookaburra immediately dashed forward and blurted out the wrong answer: HMAS AUSTRALIA, he said - June 1920, and wearing the Union Jack at her flagstaff and mainmast because she is carrying the Prince of Wales.
True. You can read this somewhere over on the ANMM photostream somewhere right now.
What absolute trash. Total nonsense.
Since we are among friends here, we feel, may we tell you that the Kookaburra sometimes teeters on the edge of the certifiable. It runs in the family, you can tell by their laughter - but this is as close to outright losing his marbles as he has recently got.
What we have here is the battlecruiser HMS NEW ZEALAND, of course, and correctly wearing the Union Jack, plus a full admiral's flag on her foremast because she has brought Admiral Lord Admiral John Jellicoe and Lady Jellicoe to Australia as part of Amiral Jellicoe's world tour aimed at reporting to the Admiralty on the future of the Dominion Navies [note temporary accommodation on the maindeck abaft the bridge superstructure. .
It is July 1919, probably the first week or so of that month, because astern of them is the J Class submarine J5 alongside the cruiser HMAS BRISBANE [I], which had towed J5 all the way to Australia from the Red Sea, where the boat's engine had broken down.
The rest of the J Class submarine flotilla is still plugging along somewhere in northern Australian waters with cruiser HMAS SYDNEY [I] and the depot ship HMAS PLATYPUS as their escorts. They will arrive in Sydney on July 15, more than two weeks behind J5 and BRISBANE who got well ahead for some reason.
Over on the right of the picture here is the old cruiser HMAS ENCOUNTER.
Well, while temporarily sane, we feel, we'd better pop over and fix things up on the ANMM website shortly. The Prince of Wales. Prince Edward, didn't travel around Australia on HMAS AUSTRALIA in 1920, by the way. He came on HMS RENOWN.
Photo: Australian National Maritime Museum, it is out of copyright, and appears on the ANMM's Flickr Photostream, which can be seen here: