These pics were taken on 22nd December 2011, the day after HMAS Choules arrived. I was surprized at just how big HMAS Choules was. Can’t wait for NUSHIP Canberra to arrive in Williamstown later this year.
Pics are listed:
1. HMAS Choules
2. HMAS Choules flooding its dock
3. Looking straight down the dock of HMAS Choules
4. The Collective
5. HMAS Melbourne III
6. HMAS Success just coming out of refit
7. HMAS Tobruk, the only active Landing ship atm
8. The bow of the WW1 vessel HMAS Parramatta- a memorial, the Stern is located in Parramatta.
9. The Mast of the WW1 Vessel HMAS Sydney- Australia’s first war loss- not the flying white ensign
10. Former HMAS’s Kanimbla and Manoora (outboard), no fate has been decided yet on these vessels.
By: leon - 6th March 2012 at 08:52
Thank you very much for the photos!
These pics were taken on 22nd December 2011, the day after HMAS Choules arrived. I was surprized at just how big HMAS Choules was.
Here some photos of HMAS Choules still as Largs Bay:
http://www.modellmarine.de/index.php?option=com_imagebrowser&view=gallery&folder=rn-rfa-l-m&Itemid=55
(photos 17-21)
9. The Mast of the WW1 Vessel HMAS Sydney- Australia’s first war loss- not the flying white ensign
This is the mast of the HMAS Sydney of the Chatham class, the WWI vessel – she was never lost, but scrapped after 1928.
The only HMAS Sydney, which was lost, was Sydney II, a light cruiser of the Amphion (modified Leander) class – sunk in 1941 by the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran.
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March 5, 2012 at 6:31 pm