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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
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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
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HMAS Brisbane I, the original 'Steel Cat'
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Re: The Old RAN
Posted: 02 Nov 2019 16:06
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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
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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.
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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