1938: HMAS VOYAGER [I] on a cruise to northern ports - RAN.

6624. Several years ago, in 2010, we uploaded an interesting sequence of six pre-WWII images of the Admiralty V &W Class destroyer HMAS VOYAGER [I] berthed in, and departing Coff's Harbour, NSW. Acquired with usage permission from the Coffs Harbour City Library, the images were produced by the local Forsyth Studio, and began with an unusual tinted photo of the ship at 2715, here:

 

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Subsquently, several years later, we have lit on this very similar image from the RAN's Navy Heritage Collection, initially believing it to be an additional photo from the same sequence. But no, closer inspection shows the shoreline to be different, and in this image the destroyer has awning spread from amidships aft.

 

Still, we are inclined to think it has been taken during the same winter cruise in 1938, prehaps at Cairns?

 

ADDITIOIN: We subsequently realize this is a companion image to Entry NO. 4160, shown here:

 

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Confusion all round. We find we were previously under the same misapprehension about the Coffs Harbour sequence with that entry too - but both now are corrected.

 

 

Photo: RAN, Navy Heritage Collection, Image ID. NO. 00223.

 

 

Done