Wan: Thanks mate, I do remember the trials and them being successful but the pic I saw recently had the CEA-FAR mounted in a diamond fashion rather than Squar fashion in the pics here and they were not add ons but actually built into a module right where the fire control radar is in those pics and the FCR was moved atop this module, I will look for it harder when I get some time (hahaha yeah good joke, me with time on my hands 🙁 )

As for the old Gift Fleet River class Destroyer, yes it is still there, I saw it last week end when I went to my dad’s place. The bow of this vessel is at the jetty entrance of Fleet Base East right on Sydney Harbour- I remember seeing it there when I was in the navy. The stern of the same vessel is preserved on the Parramatta River at Parramatta and you pass it when you catch the Rivercat from Circular Quay to Parramatta, I used to live just around the corner from it and some times sitting under it reflecting on my life- this was before I was in the navy. If you are interested, I’ll head up there and get some pics, it really is rather interesting, just wish we could put all the pieces back together and bring her back to life as a museum ship, there aren’t many vessels around today from that era and none of the Gift Fleet exist today which is really sad.

Uni: Mate I was looking at a pic the other day of HMAS Parramatta and it looks like CEA-FAR is already fitted to it, I’ll see if I can dig out a pic.