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Re: The Old RAN

Posted: 05 Oct 2019 15:11
by MikeJames
County-class heavy cruiser HMAS Australia in Port Melbourne, 22nd October 1948

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Re: The Old RAN

Posted: 10 Oct 2019 13:51
by MikeJames
Sydney (III) as a troop transport, departing GI.

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Re: The Old RAN

Posted: 13 Oct 2019 10:48
by MikeJames
HMAS Australia (D84) pre-war

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Re: The Old RAN

Posted: 19 Oct 2019 10:13
by MikeJames
RAN Tribal-class destroyers in line ahead, c. 1946-1950.

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Re: The Old RAN

Posted: 19 Oct 2019 10:14
by MikeJames
Captain John Collins, CB, RAN leads his men with 'three cheers' following Shropshire's commissioning in the RAN.

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Re: The Old RAN

Posted: 23 Oct 2019 15:23
by MikeJames
HMAS Brisbane I, the original 'Steel Cat'

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Re: The Old RAN

Posted: 02 Nov 2019 16:06
by MikeJames
RAN Wessex with RN T class submarine Trump

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Re: The Old RAN

Posted: 04 Nov 2019 06:49
by MikeJames
HMAS Darwin (04) on May 3.1992. Preparing to board a merchant ship during operation Damask.

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Re: The Old RAN

Posted: 17 Nov 2019 08:01
by MikeJames
HMAS Vampire approaches as Melbourne's band tunes up, 1960s.

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Re: The Old RAN

Posted: 20 Nov 2019 08:35
by MikeJames
HMVS Cerebus, later to become HMAS Cerebus. Bought by the colony of Victoria prior to Australia becoming a Commonwealth

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Re: The Old RAN

Posted: 28 Nov 2019 08:24
by MikeJames
Bicentennial Navy! DDG HMAS Hobart and FFGs Canberra and Darwin leaving Hobart, 1988

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Re: The Old RAN

Posted: 28 Nov 2019 08:47
by MikeJames
HMAS Melbourne at speed

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Re: The Old RAN

Posted: 14 Dec 2019 13:16
by MikeJames
County-class heavy cruiser HMAS Shropshire enters Sydney Harbor following her transfer from the RAN

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Re: The Old RAN

Posted: 16 Dec 2019 13:50
by MikeJames
RAN carrier group consisting of R21 Melbourne and destroyers D08 Vendetta and D04 Voyager , 1959.

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Re: The Old RAN

Posted: 22 Dec 2019 15:16
by MikeJames
Troops embark on the light cruiser HMAS Sydney en route for Crete, July 1940

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Re: The Old RAN

Posted: 13 Jan 2020 11:56
by MikeJames
Eight Fairey Firefly FR.1 and seven Hawker Sea Fury FB.11 overfly Majestic-class HMAS Sydney, c. 1949.

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Re: The Old RAN

Posted: 16 Jan 2020 08:07
by MikeJames
HMNZS Canterbury and HMAS Darwin operating together

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Re: The Old RAN

Posted: 19 Jan 2020 20:32
by MichaelB
A war weary Napier entering Madagascar after the success of the invasion. From an album of an Able Seaman who took his camera to sea.

Re: The Old RAN

Posted: 27 Jan 2020 09:46
by MikeJames
Melbourne (R21) turns away from USS Enterprise (CVN-65) during exercise Kangaroo Two as a Kiwi watches on.

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Re: The Old RAN

Posted: 27 Jan 2020 09:51
by MikeJames
HMAS Perth fires on North Vietnamese coastal defense sites from her station aft of USS Newport News (CA-148) during an Operation Sea Dragon gunfire support mission, 23 February 1968.

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Re: The Old RAN

Posted: 02 Feb 2020 20:19
by MikeJames
Overhead view HMAS Australia in the Panama Canal, March, 1935

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Re: The Old RAN

Posted: 15 Feb 2020 23:34
by MikeJames
A Fairey F.17 Campania seaplane alongside the battlecruiser HMAS Australia, during WWI

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Re: The Old RAN

Posted: 01 Mar 2020 10:58
by MikeJames
Indefatigable-class battlecruiser HMAS Australia.

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Re: The Old RAN

Posted: 24 Mar 2020 13:27
by MikeJames
Lovely wartime shot of HMAS Sydney II

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Re: The Old RAN

Posted: 02 Apr 2020 15:29
by MikeJames
HMAS Australia underway in Hudson River off New York City heading upstream, c. 1932-1933.

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Re: The Old RAN

Posted: 08 Apr 2020 10:45
by MikeJames
HMAS Quiberon, HMS Aurora and a Fiji class cruiser in Algiers, December 1942

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Re: The Old RAN

Posted: 13 Apr 2020 10:22
by MikeJames
HMAS Melbourne sails into Sydney Harbour for the last time, flying her decommissioning pendant signifying its last voyage with the Royal Australian Navy on 27 September 2019.

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She has since been repainted and given a new number for her new owners, the Chilean Navy.

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Re: The Old RAN

Posted: 17 Apr 2020 13:14
by MikeJames
A tower of smoke and steam pours from the Italian cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni just before she sinks after action with the HMAS Sydney, July 19, 1940

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Re: The Old RAN

Posted: 17 Apr 2020 13:28
by MikeJames
The three DDGs alongside

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Re: The Old RAN

Posted: 21 Apr 2020 16:59
by MikeJames
HMAS Vendetta entering Jacquinot Bay, New Guinea, Nov 4, 1944. Old and tired after hard-service, Vendetta has had her main armament halved and additional close range AA added.

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